I am a poet, writer and editor with a social conscience and a passion for the natural world. Much of my work seeks to highlight threats faced by our natural environment and to encourage readers in helping to preserve it for future generations. So I suppose that I'm something of an activist too.

Widely published in literary journals and anthologies, I am the author of eight full collections of poetry and have compiled and edited three anthologies: I Write Who I Am: an anthology of Upstart poetry (2011); For Rhino in a Shrinking World: an international anthology (2013); and Coming Home: poems of the Grahamstown diaspora (2019).

I write an occasional poetry column called 'Poetic Licence' for Grocott's Mail, South Africa's oldest independent weekly newspaper.