Don Beukes: He is a South African and British writer. He is
the author of ‘The Salamander Chronicles' (CTU) and 'Icarus
Rising-Volume 1’ (ABP), an ekphrastic collection. He taught
English and Geography in both South Africa and the UK. His
poetry has been anthologized in numerous collections and
translated into Afrikaans, Persian, French and Albanian. He
was nominated by Roxana Nastase, editor of Scarlet Leaf
Review for the 'Best of the Net' in 2017 as well as the
Pushcart Poetry Prize (USA) in 2016. He was published in
his first SA Anthology ‘In Pursuit of Poetic Perfection’ in
2018 (Libbo Publishers) and his second 'Cape Sounds' in
2019 (Gavin Joachims Publishing). He is also an amateur
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