Chris Mann (poet)
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Christopher Michael Zithulele Mann[1] (born 1948, Port Elizabeth, South Africa) is a South African poet and academic.
Biography
Chris Mann was born in Port Elizabeth in 1948 and went to school in Cape Town. He studied English and philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand, He went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and also studied at London University. From 1977 to 1980 he held a post in the English Department at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. From 1980 to 1995 he worked with an NGO, The Valley Trust afterwhich he returned to Rhodes University where he is presently a professor of poetry.[1]
Published Anthologies
His works include:
- New Shades,[2] 1982
- Kites, and Other Poems,[3] 1990
- Mann Alive!: Poems,[4] 1992
- South Africans: a set of portrait-poems,[5] 1996
- The horn of plenty: a series of painting-poems,[6] 1997
- Heartlands,[7] 2002
- Home from Home: New and Selected Poems,[8] 2010
Commentary on Mann's Work
Mann's work has received critical consideration from Brown[9] in 2011 and by David Levey[10] in 2010
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eve, Jeanette (2003). A Literary Guide to the Eastern Cape: Places and the Voices of Writers. Juta and Company Ltd. pp. 135–136. ISBN 978-1-919930-15-2. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ↑ Chris Mann (1982). New Shades. David Philip. ISBN 978-0-908396-54-2. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ↑ Chris Mann (1990). Kites, and Other Poems. New Africa Books. ISBN 978-0-86486-151-1. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ↑ Chris Mann (1992). Mann Alive!: Poems. David Philip. ISBN 978-0-86486-239-6. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ↑ Chris Mann (1996). South Africans: a set of portrait-poems. University of Natal Press. ISBN 978-0-86980-922-8. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ↑ Chris Mann; Julia Skeen (1997). The horn of plenty: a series of painting-poems. ISEA, Rhodes University. ISBN 978-0-86810-324-2. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ↑ Chris Mann (April 2002). Heartlands. University of Natal Press. ISBN 978-1-86914-010-6. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ↑ Chris Mann; Julia Skeen (2010). Home from Home: New and Selected Poems. Echoing Green Press. ISBN 978-0-9802501-7-6. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ↑ Brown, M., M. (2011). "Light on shades: Complex constructions of identity in the poetry of Chris Mann". English Academy Review 28 (1): 64–72. doi:10.1080/10131752.2011.574004.
- ↑ Levey, David (2010). "Could you not write otherwise?' Thirty years of Chris Mann's poetry". Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa 15 (1): 55–69.
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