Charl-Pierre Naudé Biography
Charl-Pierre Naudé is a poet, prose writer and essayist, and lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published three volumes of poetry in Afrikaans, one in English, and a second English volume is underway. His first novel will appear shortly.
Naudé has worked as a journalist, editor, freelance literary critic and book reviewer. He has published in notable magazines in the Netherlands and in South Africa. In Germany some of his latest work has appeared in Schreibheft 84. He has often read at international festivals. In 2014 he lived in Berlin on the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD.
My girl is facing her image in the mirrror.
With the faintest trace
of concern the one gazes at the other.
...
The man who had seen Livingstone was now virtually blind.
When was it the Englishman trudged into Africa -
the 1850s, 1860s? He and his troupe, their mosquito nets
and their trunks, the great explorer dead
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Vampires in Malawi, the newspaper reports.
Even the president issues a statement:
"Show me a vampire, and I'll lock him up!"
But who needs proof, if corpses prove everything?
...
That week several sightings of flying saucers were reported,
and auroras of the invisible universe.
I was in my car, and passed an unusual religious ritual
while rain poured down on a fractured dusk.
...
A couple of years back I spent a weekend
on a deserted farm, in northeast Mpumalanga.
The world's highest count of vertical lightning,
they say, occurs in this region.
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