Over three hundred collections of English poetry were entered for the 1988 Sanlam Literary Award, roughly 10 000 poems in all. The award was jointly given to Douglas Livingstone for his as yet unpublished collection, Littoral Zone, and Basil du Toit for his now published collection, Home Truths. Soundings, commissioned by Sanlam, is a selection of poems from the collections entered for the award.
