THE LIFE and times of poet Ingrid Jonker gets a different life of sorts in Niki Romijn’s Roos van Jou Mond. The performance is a tribute show of the original kind, using the poetry as lyrics to create ...

South African poet Ingrid Jonker was an absent mother, a faithless lover, a thankless daughter, and a vicious drunk. At least, that’s the portrait that emerges from Paula van der Oest and Greg ...

Ingrid Jonker became something of a Marilyn Monroe to Afrikaners, following her tragic suicide when she walked into the sea in Cape Town, leaving a young daughter and devastated circle of friends ...

On 19 July 1965, the South-African poet Ingrid Jonker walked into the sea near Drieankerbaai in Cape Town at the age of 31. She left behind a little daughter and an oeuvre of three laurelled ...

Ingrid Jonker (Carice Van Houten) lived an impossible contradiction, writing heart-rending poetry about being a woman of privilege living under apartheid rule, all the while dealing with pressure from ...

‘Black Butterflies’’ is a conventional account of the life of an unconventional woman, 1960s South African poet Ingrid Jonker, a tormented soul sometimes likened to American writer Sylvia Plath (“The ...

The uncompromising power of Ingrid Jonker’s poetry runs like a pulsing vein through “Black Butterflies,” a 1960s-set drama whose several strong points include the angry intensity of Carice van ...

The tragic and mysterious story of a writer—oft described as the South African Sylvia Plath—is brought to the screen in Paula van der Oest’s Black Butterflies. In this biopic set in Cape Town, Ingrid ...

The uncompromising power of Ingrid Jonker’s poetry runs like a pulsing vein through “Black Butterflies,” a 1960s-set drama whose several strong points include the angry intensity of Carice van ...