All the Days

Robert Berold has published four collections of poetry and nine other books, which include a memoir, a biography, and (as editor) a rural skills handbook, a book of interviews with poets and an anthology of South African poetry. From 1989 to 1999 he edited the poetry journal New Coin. He coordinated the MA in Creative Writing at Rhodes University from its inception in 2011 until 2015. He has edited over 50 collections by South African poets, many of them published by his Deep South press.

Books published
Poetry
The Door to the River (Bateleur, 1984)
The Fires of the Dead (Carrefour, 1989)
Rain Across a Paper Field (Gecko, 1999)
All the Days (Deep South, 2008)

Anthologies edited
It All Begins: poems from postliberation South Africa (Gecko, 2002)
South African Poets on Poetry: Interviews from New Coin 1992-2001 (Gecko, 2003)
Seven variations on a poem by Du Fu (Aerial Publishing, 2010)
Poetry99: Twenty South African poets in performance (Deep South, 2013)

Biography
Co-writer with JJ Machobane: Drive Out Hunger: The Story of JJ Machobane of Lesotho (Jacana, 2003)

Memoir
Meanwhile Don’t Push and Squeeze: A year of life in China (Jacana, 2007)

Community development
Editor: People’s Workbook (Environmental and Development Agency - EDA, 1981)
Editor and co-author with Tally Palmer: Some, for all, forever: Water ecosystems and people (Water Research Commission, 2002)

On teaching writing
Co-editor with Stacy Hardy: The Fertile Ground of Misfortune – Teaching Practices in Creative Writing (Institute for the Study of Englishes of Africa - ISEA, 2017)