For Simone, the chance to share her mother’s poetry not only with the artists involved with the project, but also music fans who will be listening to it, is fulfilling. “That love of Ingrid Jonker’s ...

In recent years Jonker’s short and troubled life has been the subject of several films, plays, books and albums. “Through her beautiful poems, in her mother tongue Afrikaans, Ingrid Jonker ...

About 12 years ago Dutch artist Niki fell in love with the poems of Ingrid Jonker. This admiration resulted in two CDs and Roos van Jou Mond, which toured The Netherlands for three years and is ...

Moving from the raunchy acid-face love of Boo! to the quietly considered despair of Jonker’s poetry is quite a leap ... in the sense that it’s Ingrid Jonker. Her having been a pretty serious ...

Schimke also translated Ingrid Jonker’s love letters to Andre Brink from Afrikaans ... about when amateur poets can inflict their poetry on the world (and when they should just crumple their ...

Young actress Nicola Hanekom, in the role of the Afrikaans suicide poet Ingrid Jonker, throws herself at the character of Andre Brink, the writer with whom she had a love affair in the 1960s.

SOUND Action and Flamedrop will release a 36-artist tribute double album to poet Ingrid ... preserve Jonker’s legacy, her work, language, history and culture. Jonker’s passionate poems are ...

The uncompromising power of Ingrid Jonker’s poetry runs like a pulsing vein through “Black Butterflies,” a 1960s-set drama whose several strong points include the angry intensity of Carice ...

the South-African poet Ingrid Jonker walked into the sea near Drieankerbaai in Cape Town at the age of 31. She left behind a little daughter and an oeuvre of three laurelled collections of poems.

He has won the 2022 Ingrid Jonker Prize for poetry. When Jacques Coetzee's debut book of poetry was selected for publication in 2020, his publisher diplomatically suggested that the book was ...