Meanwhile don't push and squeeze is an account of the year that writer spent teaching at a university in Hangzhou, China. Filled with puzzlement and discovery, it is enriched by the writings of Berold's enthusiastic students and those of his articulate companion. Berold's passion for literature soon takes him well beyond limits of his contract as a 'foreign expert'. This is a wide-ranging and at times very funny title, filled with fresh, startling images of 21st Century China. Robert Berold spent a year teaching creative writing in China, and this is his poetic and delightful record of that year.

It All Begins is a collection of poems in English by over fifty South African poets (and some Zimbabweans), with several contemporary translations from /Xam, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Xitsonga and Zulu. All the poems were published in the poetry journal New Coin between 1989 and 1999. These poems were written over a period which included the brutal last years of apartheid, the release of Mandela, the country's first democratic elections, and the disturbing trends of the post-Mandela era. During this time the violence of previous decades continued, although in different forms, while the poor became poorer. For poets, it was a time of innovation. Music, street rhythms, and international influences were opening up the vocabulary. Groundbreaking poems were being written - many of them unnoticed when they were first published. Collected in this anthology, they demonstrate the aesthetic diversity and truth-telling power of South African poetry. Poets include Lionel Abrahams, Tatamkhulu Afrika, Lisa

"All the Days, Robert Berold's fourth book of poems, reaches further and sings more clearly than his earlier work. The reader will be struck by the spare lucidity of the language, the elemental sense of place - and the way love in the end gets the better of difficulty." - Denis Hirson, author of I Remember King Kong (the Boxer) and White Scars * "All the characteristics of Berold s trademark voice - his refined simplicity, his focus upon sharply defined and evocative imagery, a preoccupation with the natural world and the impermanence of the human - but here in this new book he pushes these elements further and deeper." - Kobus Moolman; poet of Separating the Seas and playwright of Full Circle; Editor of the literary journal Fidelities

Poetry 99 (a book with DVD) presents the best of a week-long series of live readings by South African poets that took place in Grahamstown in 1999. Even in their written form, many South African poems carry the intonations of the poet's voice, but seeing and hearing poets reading their own work has a particular vitality. Poetry 99 is a valuable resource for poets, readers, and teachers of poetry. The twenty poets featured are: Robert Berold; Vonani Bila; Ingrid De Kok; Alan Finlay; Richard Fox; Louise Green; Colleen Higgs; Allan Kolski Horwitz; Nosipho Kota; Jethro Louw; Joan Metelerkamp; Isabella Motadinyane; Ike Mboneni Muila; Siphiwe ka Ngwenya; Mxolisi Nyezwa; Donald Parenzee; Lesego Rampolokeng; Dudu Saki; Kelwyn Sole; and Anna Varney.