Robert Berold has published four collections of poetry and has had many poems published in journals and anthologies locally and abroad. Twenty of his poems have been turned into songs by guitarist Larry Strelitz. He has also published practical manuals, a memoir of a year spent in China, and co-written an “autobiography” of a pioneering Lesotho farmer. As editor of New Coin from 1989 to 1999, he sought out much groundbreaking new poetry, and in 2002 edited an anthology of this work. He has edited thirty books by South African poets, several of them under the Deep South imprint. He has been teaching writing since 1976.