Poetic Obituaries: Many of [Don] Maclennan's works were published

commercially and in his later years, privately.

"He kept on putting out slim volumes year after year," said his son Ben.

A few years ago he won the national Sanlam Poetry Prize.

Friends described his work as raunchy, with some despair, full of love, lean, frank, unpretentious but richly compressed.

from IOL: Poet and playwright Maclennan dies at 79

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