Louis van Niekerk
Louis Petrus van Niekerk (born 1985, Evander, South Africa) is a conservationist, explorer, freelance photographer and published poet.
Van Niekerk was raised in Empangeni in the heart of Kwa-Zulu Natal.
He has obtained most of his conservation and wildlife experience in the Highveld and Lowveld of South Africa. He has worked with many private game reserves in South Africa, including Thula Thula Private Game reserve, with Lawrence Anthony the founder of The Earth Organization, a privately registered, independent, international conservation and environmental group with a strong scientific orientation.[1][not in citation given]
Van Niekerk's passion for poetry started at a very early age and he has been writing poems and short stories since he was 10 years old. He has published a number of poems with the Poetry Institute of Africa and has won various poetry competitions.[2][not in citation given] A lot of his inspiration comes from visits to his grandfather's farm in Kokstad, Kwa-Zulu Natal and the wildlife that he has been surrounded by all his life in Africa. His poetry has a very African style, but he has written European style poems as well as epic poems. Although van Niekerk wrote English poems, he has also written a number of poems in his native language, Afrikaans.[3][not in citation given][self-published source?]
Afrikaans poems[edit]
Van Niekerk wrote most of his Afrikaans poems, or "gedigte" as it is known in Afrikaans, between the age of 10 and 15.[3] A few of his Afrikaans poems were written as sonnets,[4][5] although most were written as free verse poems.[3] A lot of these poems are about wildlife and nature, including the ocean, beach, mountains, rivers, floods, bushveld, trees, evolution, seasons, and various animals. His Afrikaans poems also has a strong Christian link. Van Niekerk's Afrikaans poetry has also been published and won local South African poetry competitions.[6][not in citation given]
English poems[edit]
Van Niekerk also wrote and published poetry in English, his second language. He seems to like writing poetry in different styles and genres. He has written children's poems, epic poems, love poetry and poems about nature. His poetry has surfaced in different styles ranging from the French rondeau form to sonnets and free verse.
Most of his work can be found on his online anthology, called Louis van Niekerk - Poetry.
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