Heidi Henning
Heidi Elisabeth Henning was born in Johannesburg, and attended Roedean School South Africa, where she was awarded the English Essay Prize. She went on to study a Bachelor of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, and a Master of Science in Creative Writing at Edinburgh University. She has been published in New Contrast Literary Journal and had one piece of fiction published by Edinburgh University Press.
She has lived in the UK, Namibia and South Africa, and currently lives on a farm in South Africa with her partner and two young daughters. She has just published her first collection of poetry entitled Misheard, on Amazon and Xlibris.
Gossiping trees
2025-01-23"An uninterrupted meeting of the minds,
Discussing thoughts, anecdotes
From the mother branches"
Secret
2022-05-16"A love language,
Unhaltered, fragile, fluttering,
Mapped by constellations of emotions,"
Conclusion
2022-01-05"He died in isolation
Surrounded by sterile strangers
Unknown machines
In an intensive care unit
Without history or memory
Or a warm hand in his."
Maps
2021-06-30"I followed the footprints,
Jumping to gauge the width,
Through rain and drought-stricken ground,
I followed you."
Daughters
2021-06-09"You are the learners of landscape,
Listeners of the berg wind,
Its strong voice shouting through dark nights"
Father
2021-04-07"I’ll meet you in ten minutes
At Cafe Anton for coffee
You’ll be early as always
Waiting for me"
Childhood
2020-07-02"Visions of soft, weeping rain drenching fynbos
A lonely, cold krantz echoing baboon and jackal"
Toy designers
2019-10-08“We pick the struggling succulents
Sparsely scattered on the barely surviving
Bleached lawn, prickled with camel thorns”