DOUGLAS REID SKINNER

Monday 05 July 2021 at 19:30 SAST

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Douglas Reid Skinner was born in Upington. He’s lived in Cape Town, London, Johannesburg, New York and San Francisco, working in mining, IT, publishing, wine and building. He lives in Thames Ditton, Surrey. His most recent collection, Liminal, appeared in 2017. He has published nine books of translation, alone or with an associate, most recently a selection of poems from the Italian of Marco Fazzini, Poesie Scelte, in 2020, and, with co-translator Richard Whitaker, Gaius Valerius Catullus: Selected Lyric Poems, also in 2020. He edits Stanzas in Cape Town and is English editor and a translator for the AVBOB Poetry Project.

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HELEN MOFFETT

Monday 28 June 2021 at 19:30 SAST

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Helen Moffett is an author, editor, poet, academic, and activist. Her publications include university textbooks, a treasury of landscape writings, a cricket book (with the late Bob Woolmer and Tim Noakes), an animal charity anthology (Stray, with Diane Awerbuck) and the Girl Walks In erotica series (with Sarah Lotz and Paige Nick). She has also published two poetry collections – Strange Fruit and Prunings, the latter the joint winner of the 2017 SALA prize for poetry. Her debut novel Charlotte (a Pride & Prejudice sequel), was published in 2020. She lives in Cape Town with three cats and a feisty kombucha scoby, and can be found on Twitter @heckitty.

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MEGAN ROSS

Monday 21 June 2021 at 19:30 SAST

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Megan Ross was born in Johannesburg in 1989. Her multidisciplinary approach to the body, oceans, spirituality and language has manifested in several career streams: journalism, art direction, writing and editing, and visual art. She is the author of Milk Fever (uHlanga Press, 2018) and a winner of the Brittle Paper Award for Fiction and the Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award. Her bylines include New Frame News, GQ, Catapult, Mail & Guardian, and Brittle Paper. Megan also edits poetry for Isele Magazine and is the lead responder at Lil-Lets Talk. She lives on the Indian Ocean coastline with her partner and son.

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