Kobus Moolman
Professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Western Cape
Publications
Poetry
Fall Risk
HE SAID / / SHE SAID
Cape Town: Dye Hard Press.
Launch and reading of Kobus Moolman's new volume of poetry
20 October 2024
Hoofstraat Conceptual in Riebeek Kasteel
The Mountain behind the House
All and Everything
Cape Town: Uhlanga Press.
(Chapbook with illustrations by Shubnum Khan)
Kobus Moolman reads from his chapbook All and Everything (uHlanga, 2019):
Impepho Press YouTube, 2020
A Book of Rooms
Grahamstown: Deep South.
Winner of the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, 2016
Shortlisted for the NIHSS award, 2016
Review by Denis Hirson in New Coin, 2015
Review by Karen Jennings in Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2019
Review by Jim Ferris in Wordgathering.com No33
Light and After
Grahamstown: Deep South.
Review by Moira Richards in Rattle, 2011
Review by Janet van Eeden in LitNet, 2010
Anatomy
Lidgetton: Caversham Press.
(Hand-made chapbook with illustrations by Witty Nyide. Limited edition)
Separating the Seas
Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
Winner of the South African Literary Award for Poetry, 2010
Feet of the Sky
Howick: Brevitas Press.
Time like Stone
Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press.
Winner of the Ingrid Jonker Poetry Award, 2000
Short Stories
The Swimming Lesson and Other Stories
Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press
Review by Anne Finger in Wordgathering
Review by Estelle Sinkins in The Witness
The Swimming Lesson short story
Playscripts
Blind Voices: a collection of radio plays
Johannesburg: Botsotso Publishers.
Full Circle
Johannesburg: Dye Hard Press
Winner of the PANSA award for Best Script, 2004
Joint Collections of Poetry
5 Poetry
C., Moolman, K., Mphutlane, B., Murcott, L., Schutte, G. Botsotso Publishers.
Edited Volumes
Using Arts to Understand Disability in Africa: Inclusive Explanations
With Charlotte Baker, Elvis Imafidon, Emelda Samba.
London: Routledge. [forthcoming]
Notes from the Body: Health, Illness, Trauma
with Duncan Brown and Nkosinathi Sithole.
Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu- Natal Press.
Review by Margie Orford in The Daily Maverick
Review by Derek Davey in The Mail & Guardian
Alone in the House. Posthumous poems of Michael Wessels
Cape Town: Modjaji Books.
New Contrast 191, Vol 48, Spring. Special issue
UWC & SUN young writers. (with Sally-Ann Murray). South African Literary Journal. Cape Town
Five Points: Special issue: Writing from South Africa’s Creative Writing Programs. Vol.19, number 1
(with Renee Schatteman). Georgia State University.
New Contrast 184, Vol 46, Summer. Special issue
UWC young writers.
South African Literary Journal. Cape Town.
Cutting Carrots the Wrong Way
Poetry and Prose about Food from the University of the Western Cape Creative Writing programme.
Cape Town: uHlanga Press.
Illuminations: Special issue on Contemporary South African Poetry
College of Charleston
Editor’s Introduction by Kobus Moolman
Illuminations, Special South Africa Issue, 2017
text PDF
Current Writing: issue 27 (2)
Special issue on the Teaching of Creative Writing in South Africa.
Tilling the Hard Soil
Poetry, prose and art by South African Writers with Disabilities. Pietermaritzburg.
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Poetry published in Anthologies
Touching the Wild
Schonstein, Patricia.
African Sun Press, Cape Town. Pg 126-127.
Canopic Jar 35
Rethabile Masilo and Phil Rice. Eds.
Canopic Publishing. Paris. Pg45-48.
Education as Change journal. Vol. 24
Byrne, Deirdre. Ed.
UNISA Press.
Naturally Africa: an Anthology of Earth Poems
Dan Wylie and Patricia Schonstein. Eds.
African Sun Press, Cape Town. Pg191-192.
Coming Home: Poems of the Grahamstown Diaspora
Owen, Harry. Ed.
East London: The Poets Printery
The New Century of South African Poetry
Chapman, Michael. Ed.
Johannesburg / Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers.
McGregor Poetry Festival 2017 Anthology
Kennedy, Billy. Ed.
Cape Town: African Sun Press.
Absolute Africa! An anthology of poems
Schonstein, Patricia. Ed.
Cape Town: African Sun Press.
In the Heat of Shadows: South African poetry 1996- 2013
Hirson, Denis. Ed.
Grahamstown: Deep South.
Heart of Africa: poems of love, loss and longing.
Schonstein, Patricia. Ed.
Cape Town: African Sun Press.
The Sol Plaatje European Poetry Anthology 2013
Jobson, Liesl. Ed.
Sunnyside: Jacana Media.
Unbreaking the Rainbow: Voices of Protest from the New South Africa
Mitra, Amitabh. Ed.
Port Elizabeth: Poets’ Printery.
The Sol Plaatje European Poetry Anthology 2011
Jobson, Liesl. Ed.
Sunnyside: Jacana Media.
The Ground’s Ear: Contemporary Verse from Southern Africa
De Jager, Fred. Ed.
Cape Town: Quickfox Publishing.
The Walking Project: an anthology of poems by people with disabilities
Marfisi, Charlotte. Ed.
Philadelphia: Temple University.
Botsotso: an anthology of contemporary South African poetry
Edwards, Karl. and Horwitz, Alan K. Eds.
East Sussex: Reality Street.
Platinum English Grade 9 Reader
Beynon, A., Hotaling, H., Moore, J., Reed, Y. and Stielau J. Eds.
Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman.
Lovely Beyond any Singing: Landscapes in South African Writing
Moffett, Helen. Ed.
Johannesburg: Double Storey.
glass jars among trees
Finlay, Alan and Salafranca, Arja. Eds.
Johannesburg: Jacana Media.
it all begins: poems from post-liberation south africa
Berold, Robert. Ed.
Pietermaritzburg: Gecko Poetry.
The Heart in Exile
De Kock, Leon and Tromp, Ian. Eds. 1995.
Johannesburg: Penguin.
Let Me Be
Dawson, Denis. Ed.
Johannesburg: Macmillan.
Soundings
Skinner, Douglas .R. Ed.
Cape Town: Carrefour Press.
Short Stories and Prose published in Anthologies
Shimmering in the Sunset: New Short Stories from Africa
Benjamin Kwakye. Ed.
Milwaukee: Cissus Word Press.
Recognition: an anthology of South African Short Stories
Medalie, David. Ed.
Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked
Northen, Michael and Black, Sheila. Eds.
El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press.
Die Laughing: Stories of Wit, Satire and Humour
Hichens, Joanne. Ed.
Cape Town: Tattoo Press.
Africa Inside Out: Stories, Tales and Testimonies
Chapman, Michael. Ed.
Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press.
Speaking for the Generations: an Anthology of Contemporary African Short Stories
Okoro, Dike. Ed.
Nairobi: Africa World Press.
Durban in a Word: contrasts and colours in eThekwini.
Stewart, Dianne. Ed.
Johannesburg: Penguin Books.
glass jars among trees
Finlay, Alan and Salafranca, Arja. Eds.
Johannesburg: Jacana Media.
From Jo’burg to Jozi
Holland, Haidee and Roberts, Adam. Eds.
Johannesburg: Penguin Books.
Chapters in Books and Peer-Reviewed Articles
Every Place on the Map is Disabled: Poems and Essays on Disability.
Naomi Ortiz, Michael Northen, Travis Chi Wing Lau, and Camisha L. Jones. Eds.
Northwestern University Press. [Forthcoming]
Inside the Outside: How a Poem Grows in the Glare of the Writing Workshop
Sally Ann Murray and Michele Betty (Eds). Creative Practice in the Arts.
Cape Town. Dryad Press. [Forthcoming]
Read article here
Theft
Duncan Brown, Nkosinathi Sithole and Kobus Moolman (Eds). Notes from the Body: Health, Illness, Trauma.
Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
Read article here
The Room
Michael Titlestad, Karl van Wyk and Grace Musila (Eds). The Plague Years: Reflecting on Pandemics.
Routledge: London and New York.
Koos Prinsloo: the cult Afrikaans writer has been translated to English: a review.
The Room: a creative response to the pandemic
English Studies in Africa, Vol.64, Issue 2
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Spots of Time
Michael Wessels and the Imaginative Reinterpretation of Identity”.
Current Writing 33 (2).
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Re-Imagining the Writing Workshop: the Creation of Multilingual, Collaborative Poetry
Multilingual Margins: a journal of multilingualism from the periphery. Vol 6, no.1.
Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research, University of the Western Cape.
Road-Trip Haibun – After Basho
Scrutiny2, Vol 23:1. pp: 88-92
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Whose Body Is It, and What Is It Doing on My Page?
The Intersections between the Non-Normative Body and Alternative Textual Practices.” English in Africa, Vol 45, No 2.
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Who Speaks When the Speaker Says He
Poetry Wales 52 (1): 56-65
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Introduction: Critical Reflections on the Teaching of Creative Writing
Current Writing 27 (2)
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Teaching the Practice of Writing Poetry in an Academic Environment
Current Writing 27 (2).
Read article here
Ingrid Jonker: Poet under Apartheid
Journal of Southern African Studies 41 (4)
Taylor & Francis Online
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Beauty is a Verb: the new Poetry of Disability: Book Review
African Journal of Disability 3 (1): 116 -118
Re-membering the body: an exploration of the centrality of embodiment in my own work and other South African poets
Wordgathering. (Reading Loop) (December)
Burnt Offering and the Long Poem
Current Writing 23 (1): 81-83