Author : Billie, Ayanda
Publisher : Deep South
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0994710437
KwaNobuhle Overcast is a book of vivid obervations of Billie’s community 20 years into South Africa’s democracy. It describes an inhospitable and sometimes callous KwaNobuhle, its spirit worn away by the harsh toll of survival and political betrayal. The poet remains rooted, borne up by love, family, jazz music, and a stubborn belief in humanity.
Author : Kelwyn Sole
Publisher : Modjaji Books
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781920397401
Absent Tongues is Kelwyn Sole's sixth collection of poetry; a collection that speaks of tenderness, anger, ambivalence and fear. This is territory Kelwyn has long made his own - hymnal vignettes that thread the landscape of South Africa with patterns of myth and people, with pasts, presents, and, at times, with futures. We come away from these poems with something akin to nostalgia, something like a yearning to belong in the most fundamental sense - to be water, air, bone, sky. Kelwyn Sole writes with grace, acuity and with thoughtful philosophical purpose, affirming his position in the forefront of contemporary South African poetry.
Author : Mohale, Maneo
Publisher : uHlanga
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0639810829
dear reader, are you still there? take a second, now. breathe // with me. In one of the most anticipated debut collections of recent years, Maneo Mohale reckons boldly with the experience of – and the reconstruction of a life after – a sexual assault. Mohale’s unapologetic and disarming voice carries through a budding and blooming garden of poetics, rooted in a contemporary southern African tradition, but springing forth in queer and radical new directions. Indeed, this is a work encompassing the full, often contradictory, and seldom complete process of healing: where relations must be chosen as well as made; where time becomes non-linear and language insufficient; where nothing is what it seems, yet everything is what it is.
Author : Beaton Galafa
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 177927260X
Here is poetry that is personal yet spreading to have its tentacles struggling to grip into other equally slippery facets of life. In brief, Beaton writes his poetry to assuage his personal feelings yet in so doing he ends up massaging our shared experience - as Malawians, Africans and just as humans. Beaton has observed, learnt, and is growing in the Malawian poetry space. Thus, he also comes to the stage bearing the Malawian influence on his poetry.
Author : Rampolokeng, Lesego
Publisher : Deep South
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 30,36 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1928476309
Born in Orlando West, Soweto, in Johannesburg, Lesego Rampolokeng is a poet, novelist, playwright, filmmaker and writing teacher who rose to prominence in the 1980s, a turbulent period in South Africa’s history. Originally published in 1999, The Bavino Sermons includes such memorable poems as ‘Lines for Vincent’, ‘Riding the victim train’, ‘To Gil Scott-Heron’, ‘Crab attack’,‘Rap Ranting’ and ‘The Fela Sermon’.
Author : Xaba, Makhosazana
Publisher : Botsotso Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0994708165
Makhosazana Xaba, with several collections and anthologies to her name, is at the forefront of a poetry that embraces penetrating socio-political insight with highly emotional responses to the love and pain that our country provides in such abundance.
Author : Dimakatso Sedite
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1928476392
Yellow Shade evokes the stark textures of township and rural community life: the beauty and passion, the cruelty and humour, the noise, music and stillness. Sedites poems are constructed from unpredictable images a rain-sniffing wind, the knuckles of chairs, a cupboard wailing like a dog left alone in a garage in a gritty language entirely her own.
Author : Inya, Richard
Publisher : Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0797493360
Richard Inya’s This is Not a Poem as deceptively titled throws up a lot of lines that plaintively probe into the reader’s reasoning and sense of right and wrong. The poems are highly evocative and drum in rhythmic cadence a sort of impatience with our seeming contentment with the anomalies of our society.
Author : Kotze, Haidee
Publisher : Deep South
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0994710488
Haidee Kotze (formerly Haidee Kruger) is the author of Lush: Poems for Four Voices (Protea, 2007) and The Reckless Sleeper (Modjaji, 2014). She is a researcher in linguistics, focusing on language variation and change, and translation.
Author : Jijana, Thabo
Publisher : uHlanga
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0620676930
In a whirlwind of local history, contemporary culture, domestic angst, and nostalgia, Thabo Jijana’s debut collection of award-winning poems exhibits an emotional wisdom beyond the writer’s years. Earthen and edgy, musical and minimal, Failing Maths and My Other Crimes is not solely a meditation on family and mortality, nor just a manifesto on the role of art in a young man’s life: beyond all, this collection is a short masterclass in South African storytelling-in-verse.
