Monday 26 Sept 2022 at 19:30 SAST
Donald Parenzee (1948-2022) Donald Parenzee is one of South Africa's most underrated poets. In an age where poets have to self-promote and self-market their poems, Donald Parenzee was too modest to think his poems should see it into print. With much lobbying from Keith Gottschak, his first collection Driven to work was published in 1985. His second collection, No free sleeping (shared with two other poets) came out in 1998. Donald was an architect, and this perspective enhanced some of his poems. This tribute will read a selection from his poems.
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So much respect and love for my neighbour Donald. Our first night of neighbourly drinks, Donald told me he made bespoke furniture and in that moment he became a friend for life as I his creative flair spoke to my soul. And then ...the many times of forgetting my charger at work and having to run to Donald for we shared a love for a MAC - testimony to creative souls. Thank you for your heart Donald, you would give me that charger till the next day even though it meant you then could not create your heartfelt poems that day, I now realise. And then of course forgetting my key somewhere so many times and having to get D…