Monday 03 May 2021 at 19:30 SAST
Originally from the UK, where he had been appointed the inaugural Poet Laureate for Cheshire in 2003, Harry Owen moved to South Africa’s Eastern Cape in 2008 Outspoken in his commitment to the natural world and a passionate advocate of poetry, he is the author of eight collections, the three most recent being Small Stones for Bromley (2014); The Cull: new and resurrected poems (2017); and All Weathers (2019). He has edited three anthologies – I Write Who I Am: an anthology of Upstart poetry (2011); For Rhino in a Shrinking World: an international anthology (2013); and Coming Home: poems of the Grahamstown diaspora (2019). For more than twelve years, Harry hosted the popular monthly open floor event called Reddits Poetry in Grahamstown. He now lives near Stellenbosch.
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