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Ethics knot leaves poetry at sea
Can poetry really change anything? Antjie Krog’s persistent probings at the recent Dancing in Other Words Festival highlighted some uncomfortable ethical concerns, writes Leon de Kock.
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Tagged Albie Zachs, Antjie Krog, Dancing in Other Words, Leon de Kock, Post-Apartheid, Yang Lian
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Spider in a jar
Prompted by Kavish Chetty’s challenge to the bourgeois ideal of poetry, Marlene van Niekerk responds in an Afrikaans poem that reflects on the potency of the small gestures and utterances of a minimally shared past.
