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Jeni Couzyn
South African poet
Jeni Couzyn (born 1942) is a feminist poet and anthologist of South African extraction who lives and works in Canada and the United Kingdom.
Her best known collection is titled Life by Drowning: Selected Poems (1985), which includes an earlier sequence A Time to Be Born (1981) that chronicles her pregnancy and the birth of her daughter.[1][2][3]
Biography
Couzyn was born in South Africa and educated at the University of Natal.
She emigrated to Britain in 1966 and established herself as a freelance writer.
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She became a Canadian citizen in 1975 and the following year was appointed writer-in-residence at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Since then she has divided her time between England, Canada, and South Africa.[4]
Work
Poetry
Couzyn's first collection was titled Flying (1970).
Later collections include Christmas in Africa (1975), A Time to be Born (1981), Life by Drowning: