Here in South Africa my producer tells me how Benjamin and Helen Suzman at her behest helped campaign to free South African poet Muzwhake from jail. Benjamin wrote to Nelson Mandela in which he said “you can tell how well a country is by how it treats the poets.”   more »

I wrote the piece to try and show the writing fraternity that my l life as poet was beset by the greater need to piece together my story to find my family.   more »