Credentials
* Emeritus Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of Cape Town
* Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, UK

Occupations
* Poet and Writer of Fiction
* Vice-President of the SA PEN Centre
* Literary Patron of New Contrast magazine – together with Andre Brink, Nadine Gordimer, JM Coetzee, Dan Jacobson, Zakes Mda & Zoe Wicomb

Publications
* Collections of Poetry
o Drive of the Tide (1976)
o New-Born Images (1991)
o Mulberries in Autumn (1996)
o The Living and the Dead: Selected and New Poems 1976-2005 (2005)
o Where the Wind Wills (2011)

* Works of Fiction
o Testimony – a novel(1992)
o African Tales from Shakespeare – short stories (1999)

Literary Prizes
* SANLAM National Literary Competition (1989)
* The Heinemann/Weekly Mail Literary Award (1990)
* The Arthur Nortje Memorial Award (1991)