P. Q. R. Anderson is the author of four volumes of poetry: Night Transit (Dryad, 2023), In a Free State: A Music (uHlanga, 2018), Foundling’s Island (University of Cape Town Writers Series, 2007), and Litany Bird (Carapace, 2000). He is the recipient of the Sanlam Literary Award and the Thomas Pringle Award. An academic memoir, On the Frontier, will be published in 2026 with Jacana Media. He lectures in English at the University of Cape Town.
