It is a first collection, and there are no South African pu… - Ingrid Andersen

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It is a first collection, and there are no South African publishing houses that can afford to take risks on poetry collections anymore, let alone new poets. I believed in the work and wanted to put it out there.

Ingrid Andersen

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Ingrid Andersen (born 1965) is a South African poet. She is also the editor of Incwadi, a South African online journal of poetry and photography.

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Love God with everything you have and everything you are, and love those around you as you love yourself. The rest is just detail.

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