Career
He is noted as a Coloured writer who wrote works in Afrikaans that dealt with racial discrimination and satirized the political situation. Some collections include English poems, and he translated the Afrikaans poet North P van Wyk Louw into English. He was awarded the Hertzog Prize in 2012 for his contribution to the drama genre.
Small"s last play was published in 1983.
One of his famous poems is called " Doemanie ". After decades spent out of the public eye, Small, on 14 September 2013, received a hero"s welcome at the Breytenbach Centre in Wellington, where he was guest of honour at the centre"s Poet Festival.
He read a selection of poems from his latest anthology Klawerjas.