Biography
Geoffrey Haresnape is a South African poet and writer who, in the 1950s at University of Cape Town, edited the student literary magazine, "Groote Schuur," which published the work of J. M. Coetzee, C. J. (Jonty) Driver, Stephen Gray, Breyten Breytenbach and Adam Small. From 1980 to 1989, he was editor of "Contrast," South Africa’s leading literary magazine. He is the Vice President of PEN South Africa, an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Cape Town, an Honorary Vice-President of the English Academy of Southern Africa.
http://www.english.uct.ac.za/geoff-haresnape
Poetry Collections
Drive of the Tide (Maskew Miller, South Africa, 1976); New-‐‑Born Images (Thorold's Africana Books, Johannesburg, 1991); Mulberries in Autumn (Thorold's Africana Books,Johannesburg, 1996) Johannesburg); The Living and Dead (Snailpress, South Africa, 2005); Where the Wind Wills (Echoing Green Press, South Africa, 2011)
Sources
"Geoffrey (Geoff) Haresnape." University of Cape Town. September 2018. http://www.english.uct.ac.za/geoff-haresnape. Accessed on April 10, 2022. "Q&A with Poet and Writer Geoffrey Haresnape." PEN South Africa. May 20, 2015. http://pensouthafrica.co.za/qa-with-poet-and-writer-geoffrey-haresnape/ accessed on April 10, 2022. "Geoffrey Haresnape Biography." Badilisha Poetry X-change. http://badilishapoetry.com/geoffrey-haresnape-2/?msclkid=9cdc0b10d02811ec8fd4faa196e15a57, accessed on April 10, 2022.
