Angifi Proctor Dladla is a history and language teacher in Katlehong. During the State of Emergency in the 1980s, he was known as Muntu wa Bachaki or Udibi Lwase Sandlwana. He founded the Akudlalwa Communal Theatre in Katlehong, and co-founded Bachaki Theatre Ensemble in Johannesburg. As playwright he has written Mene Tekel, Mistress Magumbo, Dennis the Goat on Trial, Saragorah, and co-written several other plays. As a poet who writes in both English and Zulu, he is often called upon to read and sing his poems at weddings, farewells, funerals, launches, motivational campaigns and graduation ceremonies. For the past few years he has taught writing and theatre to inmates at Boksburg Prison. This book is his first book of poems.

The Girl Who Then Feared to Sleep

Literature & Fiction

Dladla, Angifi

Poetry

Deep South

Metelerkamp's fifth book of poems was written after the suicide of her mother. The book is a sequence of poems, with Latin subtitles taken from sections of the Requiem Mass. The relationship between the poem and the mass is often oblique, tangential, ironic, and sometimes also direct. Written in Metelerkamp's distinctive musical voice, the sequence articulates the process of mourning, exploring the issues of life and death. The poems record a layered search for some meaningful explanation of the ambiguous connection between love and destruction.

Requiem

Metelerkamp, Joan

History & Criticism

This is a redesigned second printing of Seitlhamo Motsapi's acclaimed Earthstepper/The Ocean is Very Shallow, first published in 1996. *** "A very far cry from official New South African pietistic discourse of reconciliation, this collection brilliantly fuses pan-Africanist militancy, romantic spirituality, and scathing attack on neo-colonialism in its global and local forms. The political urgency is never compromised by empty rhetorical posturing or aesthetic banality: this is a rich, experimental poetry, raining down fresh imagery, complex conceits, carefully patterned to produce a volume of striking originality and stylistic rigour." -- Laura Chrisman, New Coin

earthstepper/the ocean is very shallow

Motsapi, Seitlhamo

This is the long-awaited first book of poetry by Khulile Nxumalo, one of the most innovative younger poets of South Africa. *** Khulile Nxumalo was born in Diepkloof, Soweto, in 1971. He lives in Johannesburg with his partner and two children, and pays the rent by working in television as a writer, researcher, and director. His poems have been published in South Africa, Canada, the UK, and the US.

ten flapping elbows, mama

Nxumalo, Khulile

My Ghost in the Bush of Lies starts with the arrest and detention of Paulus Nomad, a providential idler, drug addict, whore, terrorist, madman, philosopher and writer. This sets off a train of events incorporating poetry, drama, philosophy, memoir, cut-up prose and several strands of narrative. This extraordinary book is unlike anything seen before in South African literature.

my ghost in the bush of lies

Wessels, Paul

Literary

The poems in Mzwandile Matiwana's first book cover a range of subjects, including love, prison, poverty, and religion. Mzwandile Matiwana's poems are deeply felt lyrics, displaying surprising shifts of tone. Many of them were written from prison. They cover a range of experience - love, prison life, poverty, religious feeling - with rawness and delicacy. *** Mzwandile Matiwana was born in 1967 in Port Elizabeth, and writes in both English and Xhosa. His poems have been published in Kotaz, New Coin, Timbila, Botsotso, Fidelities, donga, southernrain, Carapace and Sweet. He is a member of the UWA Writers Group in New Brighton and has run creative workshops with children at the St. Christophers Street Children Shelter and Ethembeni Enrichment Center.

I Lost a Poem

Matiwana, Mzwandile

Nadine Botha is a poet who works in forms entirely her own.  Her poems have been published in poetry journals such as New Coin and Botsotso.  Ants Moving the House Millimetres is her latest work.

ants moving the house millimetres

Botha, Nadine

"I've never celebrated nor embraced negativity in my life. Every single thing I have tried to do or written has come out of a need to actually eradicate or wipe out whatever it is that seeks to destroy the soul of other people. .I respect the WORD. People talk about wordplay, I don't play with it.it's one of the most powerful weapons in the world." --- Lesego Rampolokeng is well known in South Africa and internationally for his confrontational performance poetry. Whiteheart-his first prose work-is a nightmarish plunge into a 1970s Soweto childhood where violence waits everywhere to make its nest in the child-narrator's mind.

Whiteheart: Prologue to Hysteria

Rampolokeng, Lesego

The poems in Bernat Kruger's first book, titled Never, combine hard-edged realism with a wild visionary spirituality. They range from prose poems to lyrical poems to enigmatic short narratives. The risks Kruger takes with the English language are all the more astonishing given that his mother tongue is Afrikaans. * "Bernat Kruger has something which seems increasingly rare in South African poetry today - a truly distinctive voice... insatiable, frenetic, reaching across the South African landscape, from the malls of Germiston to farms in Standerton and the back valleys of Limpopo... Kruger is inspired by the fleeting effervescence of life, wanting to grab every moment, to hold every breath, to live every second." - Anton Krueger; PhD, poet, playwright, and lecturer; Rhodes U.

Never

Kruger, Bernat

"All the Days, Robert Berold's fourth book of poems, reaches further and sings more clearly than his earlier work. The reader will be struck by the spare lucidity of the language, the elemental sense of place - and the way love in the end gets the better of difficulty." - Denis Hirson, author of I Remember King Kong (the Boxer) and White Scars * "All the characteristics of Berold's trademark voice - his refined simplicity, his focus upon sharply defined and evocative imagery, a preoccupation with the natural world and the impermanence of the human - but here in this new book he pushes these elements further and deeper." - Kobus Moolman; poet of Separating the Seas and playwright of Full Circle; Editor of the literary journal Fidelities

All the Days

Berold, Robert

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