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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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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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