Phillippa Yaa De Villiers

 

What is owed? by Kelwyn Sole: a reader’s impression

Phillippa Yaa De Villiers Books and writers 2025-11-18

"With less of his characteristic reserve and more rampant enjoyment, Sole shapeshifts in this collection, appearing as an old man, as a trogon, as a bee, as the sun, as the beloved – with a sideways wink between author and reader."

Stolen rivers

Phillippa Yaa De Villiers 2011-11-24  We Africans came to Berlin to sing
and recite poetry. We had an agenda:

What made you fall in love with books?

Phillippa Yaa De Villiers 2011-04-08 What made you fall in love with books – and how did it happen? Loving reading is as natural as walking. I can't remember learning to read. I was sort of an only child, and I felt lonely at night. I would crawl into my father's bed and lie ...

The poet Phillippa Yaa de Villiers talks about her new collection, The Everyday Wife, with Janet van Eeden

Janet van Eeden, Phillippa Yaa De Villiers 2010-06-03 Phillippa Yaa de Villiers’s approach to her work is summed up by the first poem in her new collection of poetry, The Everyday Wife:

Words become me …
Without them I am shorn.
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