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Jan 71 min read
Welcome!
We're delighted to welcome Zizipho Bam to the team. Zizipho is an award-winning poet who is celebrated for exploring love, longing, loss,...
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Dec 9, 20241 min read
South African National Poetry Prize winners 2023
https://www.instagram.com/new_contrast/p/C5gMe28KxCJ/ First Prize  KEITH OLIVER LEWIS  the sum of absence Second Prize  PHELELANI...
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Dec 9, 20241 min read
South African National Poetry Prize winners 2022
https://www.newcontrast.net/about-us/national-poetry-prize/national-poetry-prize-winners-2022/ First Prize  STUART PAYNE  Words for...
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Nov 27, 20241 min read
Anne Graaff
Mon 2 Dec, 19.30 : Anne Graaff is a poet, artist and art historian living between France and South Africa. As a writer she has written...
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Nov 27, 20242 min read
In memory of Breyten Breytenbach
This week saw the sad loss of one of South Africa's great literary figures and perhaps the foremost poet of the Afrikaans language:...
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Nov 20, 20241 min read
Brian Walter
19.30, Mon 25 Nov: Brian Walter (born 1956) taught at Chapman High School in Gelvandale, Gqeberha, and at the University of Fort Hare,...
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Nov 14, 20241 min read
Frank Meintjies
Monday 18 Nov, 19:30 : Frank Meintjies will be speaking about his new book, A Place To Night In, released by Botsotso. In this poetry...
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Nov 6, 20241 min read
A Brief Statement on Elisa Galgut and The Red Wheelbarrow
Some in our community will be aware that Elisa Galgut was disinvited from a reading for The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Collective on the...
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Nov 6, 20241 min read
Harry Owen
Monday Nov 11, 19.30 : Originally from UK, where he was the inaugural Poet Laureate for Cheshire, Harry Owen moved to South Africa in...
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