Poetry
Transcontinental Delay
‘Simon van Schalkwyk’s poetry pulls the world into uncommon focus. He is a poet of place and occasion, using telling precision of words, and the upending image. Not only is this a startling debut of maturity and accomplishment, but among its poems are those which, from the outset, will enter the literature.’
—PR Anderson
Zero Summer
‘Reading Zero Summer, I felt I was in the audience of a twenty-first century shaman, one able to capture the temper of global times, of our mass ennui, of millions of petabytes of unmemorable content, and turn it into rarefied, pastiche-free art. This is the work of serious poetry: sly, witty, sardonic, well-read and well-surfed, maudlin at the right times, and delicate yet tensile. And the shaman doesn’t browbeat us. “Look into it,” he says, and leaves the room.’
—Rustum Kozain
Simon van Schalkwyk 