The InZync Poetry Slam videos are up – watch the whole show in performance segments by each poet.

May’s Poetry Project yielded poems restrained and concentrated in focus by Firdows Talip, Gillian Rennie, Ral Ezeabasili, Sara P. Dias, Stephen Roberts, Lise Day, Ross Fleming, Annette Snyckers and Graham Dukas.

Michael Chapman’s recent talk at a research seminar in the Department of English at Stellenbosch University, “The Uses of Literature”, is now available for leisurely listening as a SLiPnet podcast.

Entries are invited for the Ingrid Jonker poetry prize, to be awarded to a poet who published a debut volume of poems in English in either 2010 or 2011.

SLiP’s reporters were at the Franschhoek Literary Festival this past weekend – for a taste of the range of events and personalities on show at this big Cape jamboree, click on the tab at the top of the page and jump to the reports.

Pieter Odendaal talks to performance poet Lemn Sissay about the edgy business of living by poetry.

How does a father of three children, a working advocate, manage to write novel upon novel? Lucy Graham reports on the launch of Andrew Brown’s new thriller, Solace, in Cape Town.

Oor digter Carina Stander se debuutroman Wildvreemd skryf Heilna du Plooy dat die roman se natuur-gesentreerde lewensbeskouing tot ’n soort wêreldvreemdheid lei wat soms net ’n bietjie te veel mag word vir die ervare romanleser, dog is dit ’n sterk debuut.