The Summer We Didn't Die is Christine Coates' third poetry collection. It is an assured, tender collection that offers the reader a way to think about the mysteries at the heart of what it means to be human, in this place and time.
Christine Coates, a poet and writer from Cape Town, holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. She has had two collections of poetry published, Homegrown (Modjaji Books, 2014) and Fire Drought Water (Damselfly Press, 2018). Her debut collection Homegrown received an honourable mention from the Glenna Luschei Prize. Her poems and fiction have been published in many local and international literary journals and have been widely anthologised.
