Stephen Gray

Stephen Gray (30 November 1941 – 22 October 2020) was a South African writer and critic. Quotes If asked to summarise what I feel my main preoccupations in poetry have been up to this great divide, I would have to reply: love and apartheid. The interrelationship between the two has been my chief subject matter (what else could it have been?) Gray said this during an interview The poetry is the centre of it all, it’s the most important to me, it’s the work I’d like to stand or fall by. Gray said this during an interview about his work My function has been to remain devoted to finding ways in which poetry itself may continue to express alternatives to unsatisfactory conditions. Gray said this during an interview Yes, I felt that if I was a writer, I should write my way out of all that, otherwise I was dead. Gray said this during an interview about his work External Links Category:Dead people Category:1941 births Category:South Africans Category:Men