SARAH UHEIDA

IN-PERSON at A Touch of Madness (Observatory, CT) | Mon 28 March 2022 | 19:30 SAST

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This is an IN-PERSON event only Sarah Uheida is a 23-year-old Libyan poet and experimental memoirist who received her Honours in English Studies from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. At the age of 13, Sarah and her family escaped the Libyan civil war and immigrated to South Africa where she is currently residing. She was the recipient of the 2020 Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets and the Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship for her upcoming fictionalised memoir, This is How We Lost that Beautiful Animal Happiness. Her work has featured or is forthcoming in anthologies such as HarperCollins' HarperVia, New Contrast, Eunoia Review, the South African, Atlanta Review and many others.

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

FRANK MALABA

Monday 21 Mar 2022 at 19:30 SAST

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Frank Malaba is an actor, playwright, and published poet. He was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, and currently resides in Cape Town, South Africa. He has performed on stage and television in both countries. He has a passion for using poetry, storytelling, and theatre as a method of healing for himself and others. His poetry has been presented at home and abroad. In 2022, he released his second book, Stories of My Bones, that follows If Words Could Speak. Frank’s one-man play entitled Broken Pathways premiered in Cape Verde in November 2021 as part of the Mindelact Arts Festival.

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KEITH GOTTSCHALK

IN-PERSON, Monday 14 March 2022 at 19:30 SAST

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This is an IN-PERSON event only Keith Gottschalk's latest poetry collection is Cosmonauts do it in Heaven. Keith chairs the volunteers running Off the Wall Poetry; hosts the Lansdowne Local Writers; & chairs the board of South Africa's longest-surviving literary magazine, New Contrast. Keith has had over 150 poems published over half a century in magazines. His first collection, of prison & protest poems, was published in 1992, Emergency Poems.

Off the Wall Poetry - Cape Town's longest running poetry meetup - affiliated to The National Writers Association of South Africa THERE WILL BE NO ZOOM READING ON THIS DATE