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Joop Bersee was born in 1958 in Holland. In 1982 he started writing poetry (some of it was published in Holland) and in 1989 he settled in South Africa. He began writing in English in 1991. He is the editor of Southern Rain Poetry - a compilation of contemporary South African poetry (by invitation only). It contains previously published and new work by some of South Africa's leading poets. Joop's work has been published in South Africa - New Coin, Kotaz, Botsotso, Timbila, Something Quarterly, Imprint, The Heart in Exile (Penguin Anthology 1996), Donga, Fidelities, Carapace, Green Dragon, Glass Jars Among Trees (Jacana Media Anthology 2003), Burning Shacks and Floods (poetry anthology by the Timbila Poetry Project, 2005), United Kingdom - South, Acumen, Orbis, The New Welsh Review, Vigil, Canada - The Breath, USA - The Melic Review, Gumball Poetry, Poetry Super Highway (Holocaust Remembrance Day issue), Journal of Afro-Latin and American Literatures (upcoming), India - Chilla, Sthree Sabdam, Deshabhimani, Yuvadhara and India Truth. |