Kelwyn Sole is professor of English literature at the University of Cape Town. Sole has published poetry and critical articles widely, and has won the AA Mutual Life/Vita Award and Thomas Pringle National Award for his criticism, as well as the Olive Schreiner Prize and Sydney Clouts Prize for his poetry. His poetry collections The Blood of Our Silence, Projections in the Past Tense, Love That is Night, Mirror and Water Gazing, Land Dreaming: Prose Poems, and, in 2012, Absent Tongues.

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