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Beats and Beatings
Kate Ellis-Cole offers an elucidating reading of poetries of ‘overload’, focusing particularly on Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ and Kgafela oa Magogodi’s ‘beautiful ones are dying’.
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Tagged Allan Ginsberg, Beats poetry movement, counter-culture, dichotomy, establishment, Kgafela oa Magogodi, protest, taboos
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Is South African political poetry seeing a revival?
Karin Schimke is pretty sure Zuma wouldn’t be pleased if he went to local poetry sessions. Here’s why.
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Tagged Allan Kolski Horowitz, Ewok, karin schimke, Kgafela oa Magogodi, Khadija Heeger, Lebohang Nova Masango, letter to south africa, Mak Manaka, Mzi Maholo, Natalia Molebatsi, Phillippa Yaa De Villiers, poetry, political poetry, Remi Kanazi, the spear, Vonani Bila, Xhosi Xaba
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