How to Open the Door
Marike Beyers
Lonely lovely lyric, these poems tell a uniquely South African story in a uniquely South African voice.
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How to Open the Door
Lonely lovely lyric, these poems tell a uniquely South African story in a uniquely South African voice. Who would want to read them? Anyone interested in the recent inflections of various Englishes and anyone interested in inflections of the ‘soul’.
Marike Beyers lives in Grahamstown. Her poems have appeared in New Coin, New Contrast, Loop, Ons Klyntji, Aerial and Tyhini as well as a few anthologies (The Sol Plaatje EU Poetry Anthology; The Ground’s Ear; For Rhino in a Shrinking World). She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Rhodes University. She acted as judge for the Dalro prize and the Percy Fitzpatrick Prize upon occasion. In 2011, she had a chapbook of poems, On Another Page, published by Aerial Publishing in Grahamstown.
“Here is a distinctive new voice in South African poetry. Marike Beyer’s writing is both simple and highly complex at the same time, delicate and tender and hard and angry. She brings her own unique perspective to the old themes of family, home and identity.”
“In deceptively simple words, Beyers captures complex memories of family scenes and relationship dynamics, stretching across time and space.”
