Chris Mann :: Writer and Poet
About Chris Mann

For a biography go to: Poetry International Website

1979. First Poems. Cape Town: Bateleur Press.
1979. A New Book of South African Verse . With: Butler, Guy (eds). Cape Town: OUP.
1982. New Shades . Cape Town: David Philip.
1992. Kites. Cape Town: David Philip.
1992. Mann Alive!. Cape Town: David Philip.
1996. South Africans. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press.
1997. The Horn of Plenty. With: Julia Skeen. Grahamstown: ISEA, Rhodes.
1999. The Roman Centurion's Good Friday. Grahamstown: Grahamstown Cathedral.
2002. Heartlands. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press.
2003.In Praise of the Shades. Grahamstown: Grahamstown Cathedral.
2004. Walking on Gravity. Grahamstown: Grahamstown Cathedral.
2005. Thuthula. Johannesburg: Ravan-Macmillan.
2005. Beautiful Lofty Things. Grahamstown: Grahamstown Cathedral.
2005. “Walking on Gravity.” In: Dante in South Africa. Cullinan, Patrick and Watson, Stephen (eds). Cape Town: Centre for Creative Writing, University of Cape Town.
2006. Lifelines. With: Skeen, Julia and Craig, Adrian. Pietermaritzburg: University of KZN Press.
2010. Home from Home. Forthcoming.

Productions in verse

  • The Sand Labyrinth. 1980 National Student Drama Festival.
  • Mahoon's Testimony. Broadcast on SAfm in 1998, rebroadcast 2007.
  • Frail Care. Broadcast on SAfm in 1997 and re-broadcast in 1999 and 2007.
  • The Crux of Being. 1999 National Arts Festival Fringe.
  • In Praise of the Shades. 2003 National Arts Festival Fringe.
  • Thuthula. 2003 National Arts Festival Main Programme.
  • Walking on Gravity. 2004 National Arts Festival Fringe.
  • Beautiful Lofty Things. 2005 National Arts Festival Fringe.
  • Lifelines. 2006 National Arts Festival Fringe production.
  • Lifesongs. 2007 National Arts Festival Fringe installation. With: Skeen, Julia.

General

  • Guest writer, Poetry Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2002.
  • Guest writer, Centre for the Arts, National University of Singapore, 2003.
  • Guest writer, International Festival of Literature, Montecantini, Italy, 2004.
  • Royal Society and Academy of Sciences of South Africa lecture, Rhodes, 2006.
  • Keynote speaker "Poetics of Conflict" Conference, University of Bridgewater, Virginia USA 2008.

Main Awards

  • Olive Schreiner Prize for South African Poetry in English.
  • South African Performing Arts Councils' Playwright of the Year.
  • Newdigate Prize for Poetry while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.
  • Hon. D. Litt. (University of Durban-Westville, now UKZN).
  • Eastern Cape Premier's Award for Literature.
  • English Academy of South Africa Thomas Pringle Award 2007.
  • Professor of Poetry, Rhodes University 2007 -