KLARA DU PLESSIS is known for her contributions to long-form and translingual poetics. In Canada, she has published five books of poetry and literary essays. Her debut collection, Ekke (Palimpsest Press, 2018), won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and her critical writing received Arc Poetry Magazine’s Critic’s Desk Award. The book-length narrative poem, Hell Light Flesh (Palimpsest Press, 2020), was adapted and produced as a mono-opera film, composed by Jimmie LeBlanc, and premiered at the International Festival of Films on Art in 2023. Klara’s recent publications include Post-Mortem of the Event (Palimpsest Press, 2024), poetry that mobilises audiovisual media, transcription, waveform visualisation, and digital humanities methods, and I’mpossible collab (Gaspereau Press, 2023), a prose collection that posits essay-writing as a collaboration between author as subject and author as object of study.
Ek’t Act is Klara du Plessis se Suid-Afrikaanse debuutbundel. Ekke (Palimpsest Press, 2018) en G (Palimpsest Press, 2023)—’n samewerking met Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi wat Afrikaans, Engels en Persies in transtalige vergelyking tot mekaar stel—is plaaslik by Poetry In McGregor, Tuin van Digters, Vrystaat Kunstefees en Woordfees bekendgestel. Dié bundels is ook met lof in Die Beeld en op LitNet geresenseer. ’n Keur van Klara se gedigte verskyn in Alfred Schaffer se Nederlandse vertaling in DW B se “Stemmen uit Zuid-Afrika” uitgawe (2024). Klara werk graag interdissiplinêr. Haar beeldende kuns en klank installasies is in Suid-Afrika uitgestal by die Johannes Stegmann Galery (Dead Air, Post-Mortem of the Event series, 2024) en by die Gallery @ Glen Carlou (Hell Light Flesh series, 2023). In Kanada, stal sy by Artexte (Incipit. Scree. Explicit., 2023), Centre Clark (Scree/n, 2023) en OBORO (Event Chambers, 2024) uit. Klara woon in Montreal en vir dele van die jaar in Kaapstad.
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