GAIREYAH FREDERICKS

Monday 30 May 2022 at 19:30 SAST

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Gaireyah Fredericks is a local of Paarl. She started writing in 2012 at the Breytenbach Centre in Wellington. Since 2015, she has self-published seven poetry anthologies. She has won awards for acting and scriptwriting, and regularly reads her work at many festivals including the McGregor Poetry Festival and Woordfees. In 2019 she won 2nd place in the AVBOB poetry competition with her poem Dood. She won The Neville Alexander prestige prize for her unselfish contribution to the development of local communities, using language and the validation of Mother tongue as a tool to unite and build bridges. She designed an online workshop series to educate emerging writers about self-publishing, the relationship between the author and their environment, and their work. She holds a BA Honours in Afrikaans from the University of the Western Cape and a Masters in Creative Writing from Rhodes University.

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KELWYN SOLE

Monday 23 May 2022 at 19:30 SAST

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Kelwyn Sole was born in Johannesburg and was educated there and in London. After working in Botswana as a schoolteacher, Namibia as an educationist and Johannesburg for an anti-apartheid NGO, he taught for thirty years at the University of Cape Town, retiring as De Beers Professor of Literature in 2016. Sole’s first collection, The Blood of Our Silence (Ravan,1987) won the Olive Schreiner Prize, while a seventh, Walking, Falling (Deep South, 2017) won the South African Literary Award (SALA). Individual poems have received the Thomas Pringle, Sydney Clouts and DALRO Awards. He will be reading from Skin Rafts (Hands-On Books, 2022), his most recent collection.

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JIM PASCUAL AGUSTIN

IN-PERSON at A Touch of Madness (Observatory, CT) | Mon 16 May 2022 | 19:30 SAST

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This is an IN-PERSON event only Jim Pascual Agustin was born in the Philippines and grew up under the shadow of the Marcos dictatorship. Since 1994, he has been living in Cape Town. He writes in Filipino and English, and has published ten books of poetry and a collection of stories. Bloodred Dragonflies is Agustin’s first book published in South Africa (Deep South, Makhanda, 2022). A selection from three decades of work, it includes new poems and some recently translated versions of poems from the Filipino. His poems, constructed from subtle images, close observations of nature and refracted memories, demonstrate how innocence can stay alive under the most difficult conditions.

Off the Wall Poetry - Cape Town's longest running poetry meetup - affiliated to The National Writers Association of South Africa

This even will be held at A Touch of Madness in Observatory, Cape Town THERE WILL BE NO ZOOM READING ON THIS DATE