OFF THE WALL POETRY

Sizakele Nkosi is a South African poet, educator and cultural activist whose work bridges spirituality, language and township life. Raised in Soweto and based in Kimberley, she writes in isiZulu, English and Isicamtho to explore memory, sound and survival. Her poetry collection  U-Grand Malume?  was shortlisted for the Ingrid Jonker Poetry Prize and longlisted for the NIHSS Award. She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Sol Plaatje University and the founder of  Kabomedi , a

Stuart Payne's second collection, The Sun, the Moon & Ripe Cucumbers, will be published this year by Crane River  (distributed by uHlanga). His first book, Voices From Another Room, was published in 2018. His subjects include memory and loss, and the distance between minds, both human and animal. Conversely, other poems concern the pleasures of the moment and imagination. In 2019 he had two poems commissioned by AVBOB and in 2022 was the winner of the National Poetry Prize, p

Please join us on Monday 20 Oct for a reading by Zoë Boshoff. Zoë Boshoff is a poet and lover of poetry. She has had poems published in Stanzas  and New Contrast . Zoë will be sharing poems from her draft debut collection  Wild Swimming , an exploration of the relationship between her own emerging nature, and her surroundings. Time: 19.30 Host: Julia Smuts Louw Zoom Room:  https://us05web.zoom.us/j/89955065083 ... Meeting ID: 899 5506 5083 Passcode: 4ucS3b

Deborah Seddon was born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literary Studies in...

Keith Gottschalk serves the National Writers' Association of South Africa, New Contrast, Off the Wall, and convenes the Lansdowne Local...

Marcelle Olivier is a writer and academic from Cambridge. She is a Commonwealth Scholar and holds a doctorate from Oxford University; her...

Host: Julia Smuts Louw Zoom Room: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/89955065083... Meeting ID: 899 5506 5083 Passcode: 4ucS3b

Ken Barris is a retired academic, writer and book critic, and currently works an editor. He has won various literary awards, including...

‘Words are my curds and rhymes my whey.’ ~ Going for It Geoff Haresnape has authored six collections of poems: Drive of the Tide (Maskew...

juli Jana Roussouw will be appearing at OTW on Sept 1. As both  poet and visual artist juliJana Roussouw expresses herself with the brush...