Alan James (poet)

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. m He has more recently published two volumes of day-to-day bible readings.

Works

 * The Dictator (1972)
 * From Bitterfontein (1974)
 * At a Rail Halt (1981)
 * Producing the Landscape (1987)
 * Morning Near Genadendal (1992)
 * Ferry to Robben Island (1996)
 * The First Bushman's Path: Stories, Songs and Testimonies of the /Xam of the northern Cape: versions with commentary (2001)
 * "They will call him Immanuel" (2017)
 * "The Messiah must suffer and rise" (2017)