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Publications

Silke has published poems and stories in a variety of South African literary journals and anthologies.
 
She is  featured in the following publications by the Ecca Poets:
  • Unplanned Hour (2012), Ecca Poets, Ecca/Seaberg, Hogsback, ISBN 978-0-9814286-2-8
  • This Questioning Terrain (2014), Ecca Poets, Hogsback, ISBN 978-0-620-60529-8
  • Sound Piping (2015), Ecca Poets, Hogsback, ISBN 978-0-620-66405-9
  • Gold in Spring (2016), Ecca Poets, Hogsback, ISBN 978-0-620-72983-3
  • This Moment’s Marrow (2017), Ecca Poets, Hogsback, ISBN 978-0-620-77226-6
  • Throw in your Song  (2018), Ecca Poets, Hogsback, ISBN 978-0-620-81546-8
  • Staying Hungry  (2019), Ecca Poets, Hogsback, ISBN 978-0-620-84772-8 
  • What It Is ​(2020), Ecca Poets, Plettenberg Bay, ISBN 978-0-620-89460-5
  • Alles is Anders (2021), Ecca Poets, Knysna, ISBN 978-0-620-96412-8
  • This Recurrence of Light (2022), Ecca Poets, Sunrise-on-Sea, ISBN 978-0-6397-3171-1

She has co-authored the following books with the poet and husband, the late Norman Morrissey:
  • Tryst. A dialogue of love poems (2012), Norman Morrissey and Silke Heiss, Hogsback
  • Learn the Dance. Another year of love in poems (2013), Norman Morrissey and Silke Heiss, Hogsback
  • Hogsback Hiku (2013), Norman Morrissey and Silke Heiss, Hogsback
  • Simply in Love. Love and Poetry play on! (2014),  Norman Morrissey and Silke Heiss, Hogsback
  • To The Far Horizon (2015), Norman Morrissey and Silke Heiss, Hogsback
  • Love Letters To The Earth (2016), Norman Morrissey and Silke Heiss, Hogsback
  • A Shell Held To The Ear (2017), Norman Morrissey and Silke Heiss, Hogsback
  • The Only Altar (2018), Norman Morrissey and Silke Heiss, Hogsback
 
She is the author of the following collections:
  • Love Gyres (2011), Silke Heiss, Simonstown
  • Birds, Beasts and Flowers (2011), Silke Heiss, Simonstown 
  • Path of Beauty: Love Poems Past and Present (2019), Silke Heiss, Hogsback
  • Greater Matter A Journey of Poems to Death and Beyond (2019), Silke Heiss, Johannesburg: PoeTree Publications, ISBN 978-0-9814286-2-8
  • Sweet Nothings (with Notebook) (2020), Silke Heiss, Hogsback, ISBN 978-0-620-86678-1
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She is author/ co-author of the following educational texts:
  • Matric Literature 1992 (SACHED, 1992)
  • IGCSE First Language English Modules 1 – 4 (Cambridge University Press, 1997; co-authored with Finuala Dowling)
  • The Island and the Bay (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
  • Playing for Real (Juta Educational Publishers, 1999). (This book has been prescribed in schools in various provinces since 2000.)
Her poems and short stories have been published in various collections and anthologies: 
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    • Fan Feedback
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    • Reviews
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