to Alan Paton, 'with a few words the scents and sounds and colours of our country'. In A Crack in the Sky (The Tame Ox, 1960) and 'Power' (The Man Who Doubted and Other Stories, 1967) his moral vision is clear; his third collection, Alley Cat and Other Stories (1973), contains darker themes such as those of alienation and loneliness. Among Cope's main achievements was his influence on South African literature during the 1960s and 1970s, important years in the struggle against apartheid. In popular culture The 2011 film Black Butterflies tells the story of the relationship between Ingrid Jonker and Jack Cope, who is portrayed onscreen by Irish actor Liam Cunningham. Selected bibliography Marie: A South African Satire (1948) The Golden Oriole (1958) The Road To Ysterberg: A Novel (1959) The Penguin Book Of South African Verse (Co- editor) (1968) The Dawn Comes Twice (1969) The Rain-Maker (1971) The Africa We Knew (1973) Lacking A Label (1974) My Son Max (1977) Notes Recorded in Sun (1979) The Adversary Within: Dissident Writers In Afrikaans (1982) References Jack Cope at the Contemporary African Database Zug, J: The Guardian: the history of South Africa's extraordinary anti-apartheid newspaper, Michigan State University Press, 2007 1913 births 1991 deaths South African people of British descent White South African anti-apartheid activists South African poets 20th-century poets