I was born in Cape Town on 25/1/41 but moved away before the age of 18 months.
My parents were divorced before I started school and the family moved virtually every year.
I matriculated at Clapham High in Pretoria in 1958, qualified as an electronics lecturer at the Post Office Training Centre in Pretoria.
Joined Parliament as a translator in 1968 and retired as Editor of Hansard in 1998, moving to the West Coast, where I am devoting myself to my writing.
Nearby you see him in air
cavorting in twistings of light
that part of him that you share
...
No longer is there a train
that goes steaming by
and yet I still see the red coals glowing
against the morning sky.
...
I would turn the prow
to where it found the wind
rushing to fill the sails
with a shudder beneath my feet
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