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Seven fixed-layout ebook editions, priced in South African Rands, preserving the poem exactly as it sits on the page — the debut collection, three later works, and three translated editions.

All editions are fixed-layout, so the line breaks, spacing and page design read exactly as intended on any device.

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All seven editions

The Complete Collection

Every English collection from the 2003 debut to 2018, plus all three translated editions of Flowers Of A Broken Smile.

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One book, four languages

Flowers, In Every Language

The English original alongside the Afrikaans, Sesotho sa Leboa and isiXhosa editions of Flowers Of A Broken Smile.

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English editions

2003 – 2018

2003

If Only

A debut collection shaped by youth, inheritance, grief and love — an early fire learning how to speak from the wound.

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2009

In Time

A photographic portrait of becoming, memory and movement, measuring the distance between witness and return.

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2016

Flowers Of A Broken Smile

An extended riff on love, life and the feminine, where tenderness and survival learn to share the same language.

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2018

Oncoming Traffic

A book of movement, collision and witness — poems approaching the reader with the pressure of the road.

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Translated editions

Flowers Of A Broken Smile, carried into three more home languages — the page, the wound and the flower kept together in each.

Afrikaans

Blomme vir 'n Gebroke Glimlag

The Afrikaans translation, keeping the broken smile intact in another tongue.

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Sesotho sa Leboa

Matšoba a Myemelo ye e Robegileng

The Sesotho sa Leboa edition, returning the poems to another home language.

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isiXhosa

Uncumo Lweentyatyambo Ezibunileyo

The isiXhosa edition, opening the smile through another music.

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