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.
Flower festival
2019-03-20"The sweated-out, nudging prize-giving:
Neurotic nasturtiums pant for accolade,
Then frown,
Bow down;
Judges criticise their presentation."
Three poems by Heidi Henning
2019-03-06"on those nights
I am home-grown,
cared for, cured from cold"
Zimbabwe
2017-11-23"in a seeming miracle of survival
a land where the rushing waterfall plummets into the Zambezi"
<cut
2014-03-04"we are an arranged chorus
we get the lines
the social machines
the online medical schemes
the ability to be vacuum-bred"
The loud silence
2014-01-28"An unexpressed, swallowed roar
The confluence of a rushing water flow
Suffocated breath"
Stargazer
2014-01-28"She looked up, nightly
She looked through the crystal stars
Those gossiping stars
Not giving them any attention
She looked past them, seeing only her pain
Reflected back."
Lemon people
2014-01-21"I crouch next to her. It smells like moss and lemon verbena. I run my finger over the lemon man. He has freckles from the dust."
