Klara du Plessis is a South African-Canadian poet, who writes in both English and Afrikaans. [1] Her debut poetry collection Ekke won the Pat Lowther Award, [2] and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, [3] in 2019. Her second collection, Hell Light Flesh, was released in 2020, shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and A.M. Klein Poetry Prize. Other poetry books include: G, published in collaboration with Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi in 2023, Post-Mortem of the Event, 2024, and a book of literary essays, I'mpossible Collab, 2023.
Du Plessis was born in Montreal, but raised predominantly in Bloemfontein, South Africa. [4] She graduated with a PhD from Montreal's Concordia University. Since 2018, she has been developing Deep Curation, a practice of poetry reading organization that places poets' works in deliberate thematic and conceptual dialogue in performance.
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