Wopko Jensma is a South Africa

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n poet

Poet

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 and artist

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. Jensma published three collections of poetry before his disappearance in 1993.


Jensma's Art is ethnic, based on a theme only he has introduced, Lino printed images of animals drawn as characteristics of people.


Wopko's poetry has a jazz feel to it; he used his words as his jazz instrument and his expression is his rhythm.

• Sing for our Execution (1973)
• Where White is the Colour/Where Black is the Number (1974)
• I Must Show you my Clippings (1977)

A selection of Jensma's poems appeared, with a brief biography, in the anthology Ten South African Poets edited and introduced by Adam Schwartzman (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1999). A responsible appreciation (2009) by Tony McGregor of Jensma's poetry and art works, with quotations and some biographical details, is to be found online.

He disappeared in 1993.