Karen Press
Karen Press is a South African poet and translator.
She was born in Cape Town, and lives in Sea Point. Press is a full-time writer and editor, having published ten collections of poetry, a film script, short stories, as well as educational material and textbooks in the fields of science, mathematics, English and economics. She also translated poetry from Afrikaans, primarily work by Antjie Krog.
In 1987 she co-founded the publishing collective Buchu Books.
Antjie Krog described her poems in The Museum of Working Life as "a haunting museum constructed in Press's delicate tone and vivid poetic intelligence."
Poetry
Emergency Declarations This Winter Coming Bird Heart Stoning the Sea History is the dispossession of the heart The Coffee Shop Poems Echo Location - a guide to Sea Point for residents and visitors Home The Little Museum of Working Life The Canary’s Songbook- ''Slowly, As If''