Alan James (poet)

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Alan James is a South African writer, now living in Australia. A former law lecturer, and the founder of the poetry journal Upstream, he has published seven collections of poetry. In 1995, James received the Olive Schreiner Prize for Morning near Genandendal. [1] m He has more recently published two volumes of day-to-day bible readings.

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James maintains a website at https://gospelreadings.wixsite.com/alanjames.

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