Klara du Plessis is a South African-Canadian poet, who writes in both English and Afrikaans."An interview with Klara du Plessis". Open Book, July 13, 2018. Her debut poetry collection Ekke won the Pat Lowther Award,"Tess Liem, Stevie Howell win 2019 Book Awards for poetry". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2019. and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award,"League of Canadian Poets Announces 2014 Prize Shortlists & Spoken Word Winner!". Open Book Toronto, April 1, 2014. in 2019. Her second collection, Hell Light Flesh, was released in 2020, shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and A.M. Klein Poetry Prize. Other poetry books include: G, published in collaboration with Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi in 2023, Post-Mortem of the Event, 2024, and a book of literary essays, I'mpossible Collab, 2023.
Du Plessis was born in Montreal, but raised predominantly in Bloemfontein, South Africa."Introducing: Writing in English from a Multilingual Perspective" . The Town Crier, October 3, 2016. She graduated with a PhD from Montreal's Concordia University. Since 2018, she has been developing Deep Curation, a practice of poetry reading organization that places poets' works in deliberate thematic and conceptual dialogue in performance.
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