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Kerry Hammerton is based in Cape Town, South Africa. Reading is her first passion although writing poetry is a close second. She has published poetry and prose in South African and international literary journals and anthologies, most recently Hallelujah for 50ft Women (Bloodaxe Books: 2015), and Cutting Carrots the Wrong Way (Uhlanga Press: 2017) and Tiger (Karavan Press; 2023). She has four poetry collections: These are the lies I told you (Modjaji 2010), The Weather Report (2014), Secret Keeper (Modjaji 2018) and afterwards (Karavan Press 2023). In 2024 and 2025 Kerry edited In Other Stories (Karavan Press) an anthology of flash fiction and creative non-fiction

Kerry has an MA in Creative Writing (with distinction) from Rhodes Univer ...more

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	Living While Feminist by Jen Thorpe (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kerry Hammerton (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.48 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hallelujah for 50ft Women: poems about women's relationship to their bodies by The Raving Beauties (Editor), Kerry Hammerton (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Other Stories by Kerry Hammerton (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen Peter Symons (Goodreads Author) 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Other Stories 2025 by Kerry Hammerton (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rachel May Ferriman (Goodreads Author), Sarah Buchner 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secret Keeper it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Afterwards 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	These Are the Lies I Told You 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Since I first read these words from Nic Askew ‘… you must allow your voice to find you … ‘ I have been thinking about what this means for poets and writers.

I am not talking about the point of view of what you have written, but rather the underlying “youness” that exists in your writing. The questions that come to mind: Why do you write? What do you write about? What themes and ideas are consistent

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