Portfolio

CONTACT

mari.pete1@gmail.com

HIGHLIGHTS

2021: Light Travels | Lig Reis awarded 2 creative output units by the Department of Higher Education and Training

2020: Winter: Water and Fire | Winter Water en Vuur. Maloti-Drakensberg Verse, awarded one creative output unit by the Department of Higher Education and Training

2020: Delivered keynote address at the Student Symposium of the Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SAAAWK): "Light Travels | Lig Reis: crafting words to capture veracities" | "Light Travels | Lig Reis: woordskepping om waarhede raak te kan vat"

2012: Shortlisted for Sol Plaatje poetry competition (Poem: "Warwick Junction")

2011: Invited to perform at Woordfees (Stellenbosch)

"Turning Six" prescribed for the 2011-2013 syllabus of the Speech and Drama Association of South Africa

2010: Invited to perform at Poetry Africa (Durban)

2007: Co-editor of Look at me: Women Artists and Poets Advocate Children's Rights (Art for Humanity)

Performed at the London Book Fair

2005: Winner of Woordgilde poetry competition (poem: "Voorstedelike oggendritueel")

2002: Debut collection Begin nominated for the Ingrid Jonker prize

Short story "Die Storie van die Snork" highly commended in short story competition and published in magazine Baba en Kleuter

PUBLICATIONS

Solo collections

Peté, M. 2024. Onions & Irises. Home Poems Leopard Press

Peté, M. 2022. OlduvAI to AI. We with our tech tools. Leopard Press

Reviewed by Malika Ndlovu on ArtSmart

Peté, M. 2021. Net. Covid Verse. Leopard Press

Peté, M. 2020. Light Travels | Lig Reis. Leopard Press

Reviewed by Yvonne Sliep on Amazon

Peté, M. 2019. Winter: Water and Fire | Winter: Water en Vuur. Leopard Press

Reviewed by Illa Thompson on ArtSmart

Peté, M. 2015. Step through. Leopard Press

Reviewed by Leon de Kock on Amazon

Peté, M. 2007. Amytis. Umsinsi Press

Reviewed by Janet van Eeden in The Witness

Peté, M. 2002. Begin. Umsinsi Press

Reviewed by Kobus Moolman on LitNet

Anthologies

Van Rooyen, H. et al. 2023. Voices Unbound. Poems of the eighth International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry. African Sun Press.

Fregona, C. 1999 (Ed). Collaborations. A Book of South African Art and Poetry. umSinsi Press

Louw, P., Peté, M. & Scholtz, P. 2017. Current Haiku. Horus Publications.

Edited books

Peté, M. & Bothma, B. (Eds). 2007. Look at Me. Women Artists and Poets Advocate Children's Rights.

(A collection of art, poetry & essays published by Art for Humanity)

Reviewed by Carol Brown in ArtThrob, 114, Feb 2007

Poetry magazines

New Coin, New Contrast, Carapace, Botsotso, Fidelities, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde

Poetic works in academic books

Peté, M. 2024. Choosing the imagination to comprehend university lecturers’ agency in relation to technology. In Vincent, A. (Ed). Poetic Inquiry Atlas. Vol 1: A Survey of Rigorous Poetics. Delaware: Vernon Press. pp 261-280

Peté, M. 2024. Inquiring with Actor–Network Theory and Poetic Inquiry to Understand University Lecturers’ Agency in Relation to Technology. In Van Rooyen, H and Pithouse-Morgan K (Eds). Poetic Inquiry for the Human and Social Sciences: Voices from the South and North. Cape Town: HSRC Press. pp 173-186

Peté, M. Virtual conference on learning futures. In Quinlan, K.M. (Ed). 2016. How Higher Education Feels. Commentaries and Poems that Illuminate Emotions in Learning and Teaching. Sense Publishers. Rotterdam, Voston, Taipei. pp. 257-258.