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Poems for Mandela: Part I
SLiP asked poets for poems about Madiba. This is the result, including videopoems of Allison-Claire Hoskins and Bulelani Zantsi.
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Tagged Afrikaans, afrikaaps, allison claire-hoskins, apartheid, bulelani zantsi, english, InZync poetry sessions, isixhosa, Madiba, Mandela, mihi matshingana, multilingualism, Nelson Rolihlala Mandela, performance poetry, pieter odendaal, poetry, Post-Apartheid, ronelda kamfer, South Africa
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Thoughts from a wannabe: taking part in an InZync slam
Maria Geustyn’s beautiful and sincere account of her experience as participant in last week’s InZync Spring Slam explores how poetry changes our world.
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Tagged Adrian Different, allison claire-hoskins, Inzync, kate ellis-cole, kyle louw, language, performance poetry, pieter odendaal, poetry, poetry slam
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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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13 Ways of looking at []
Read the stunning winning poems of the UCT undergraduate poetry competition here.
MANY TONGUES – a translation anthology
SLiP’s multilingual translation anthology Many Tongues was launched at InZync on Friday night. Read it here.
