177:"I started writing poetry when I was a child, my first published poem was when I was 11. I was brought up in a home that loved poetry and literature, especially the English language. But it was only when I was older that I realised that writing is so much more than words playing on a page. Writing contains the writer, their concerns, their social context and their history. My own history became a block to my creativity as I started to explore my identity as a black woman adopted by a white family in apartheid South Africa. I felt like the colonised and the coloniser were fighting each other inside my brain. Writing continued to be important to me but I was convinced that it was simply a therapeutic process, of no value to anyone else.
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Although their relationship was tempestuous and marked by long separations, de
Villiers credits her adoptive mother Hertha Lilly Amalia nee Graf, an eminent physical anthropologist, with the love of poetry as well as believing in her talent as a performer. The story of their relationship, and a
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I needed to reclaim my humanity and myself from the toxic dance of objectification." She has also said: "Because I wasn't told that I was adopted until I was twenty, I lacked a vocabulary to describe who I am and where I come from, so performing and writing became ways to make myself up." As
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said: "The collection is dotted like gemstones with poems of delight at the world, even as she never loses sight of the post-industrial reality of degenerating modernity in which we live...".
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South Africa. She has written: "I became
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Phillippa Yaa De Villiers performs her Commonwealth Day poem at Westminster Abbey, 10 March 2014
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Over the next eight years she wrote television scripts, for shows including
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In 2017, de Viliers was commissioned to guest-edit a special edition of
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In 2006, the Centre for the Book published her first volume of poetry,
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UK tour that also featured South African poets Keorapetse Kgositsile,
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broader exposition of Yaa's complex racial identity, appears in
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Botha, Louis, Phillippa Yaa De Villiers, and Robert Maungedzo,
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Darwin's Hunch: Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins
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Phillippa Yaa de Villiers page at African Books Collective.
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The Only Magic We Know: Selected Modjaji Poems 2004 to 2019
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1451:"Vibrancy & Urgency - New South African Poetry"
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2029:"Accessing your voice | Phillippa Yaa de Villiers"
1904:"Women's Month Profile: Phillippa Yaa de Villiers"
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1983:, Birmingham, 31 October 2009. Sustained Theatre.
1737:, SouthAfrica.info, via AllAfrica, 12 March 2014.
1735:"South Africa: Poet Performs for British Royalty"
1725:, University of the Witwatersrand, 11 March 2014.
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1954:, Vol. 33, No. 1, April/May 2009, pp. 65–66.
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1405:"Beyond Words: New South African Poetry"
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1723:"An audience with the Queen"
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1424:"Beyond Words - Overview"
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423:New Daughters of Africa
418:Let Me Tell You a Story
394:New Writing from Africa
305:Where the Children Live
2080:South African adoptees
2019:at The Poetry Archive.
1919:Consciousness Magazine
1426:, Apples & Snakes.
942:The New Indian Express
675:National Arts Festival
414:Letter to South Africa
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842:Marike Beyers (ed.),
732:Keorapetse Kgositsile
717:Taller Than Buildings
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317:Taller Than Buildings
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544:Cambridge University
533:Arts Council England
523:in association with
448:Grahamstown Festival
361:The Edinburgh Review
297:Lancaster University
90:Lancaster University
1863:Education As Change
1802:"The Everyday Wife"
976:"Poets on Adoption"
853:, 23 December 2020.
851:Education As Change
752:Apples & Snakes
611:Bernardine Evaristo
592:Other literary work
390:Just Keep Breathing
2125:Women anthologists
1946:Makhosazana Xaba,
1175:True Love Magazine
1171:Melinda Ferguson,
1133:, British Council.
924:, Traveling Marla.
702:Queen Elizabeth II
669:Awards and honours
631:The Atlanta Review
517:Lesego Rampolokeng
374:Crossing Borders 3
244:Elephant of Africa
149:New Indian Express
2120:Spoken word poets
1913:Matthew Mokoena,
1910:, 10 August 2016.
1865:, Vol. 24 (2020).
1816:at Modjaji Books.
1804:at Modjaji Books.
1750:. Master Studies.
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1193:The Everyday Wife
1020:Crossing Borders"
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698:Westminster Abbey
683:The Everyday Wife
525:Sustained Theatre
521:Apples and Snakes
382:Natalia Molebatsi
321:The Everyday Wife
301:distance learning
204:Rhodes University
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