MARGARET CLOUGH

Monday 1 March 2021 at 19:30 SAST

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Margaret Clough is a retired Soil Chemist and Physical Science teacher. She started writing after retiring to Cape Town. She has written several short stories and children’s plays and has published four books of poetry, At Least the Duck Survived, and The Last to leave,( published by Modjadji Books) and Portrait in Thread and A Pious Pachyderm(self- published). Her poems have been published in Carapace, New Contrast, Stanzas, Aerodrome, Type/cast andthe anthology, Absolute Africa.

National Poetry Prize 2020 Winners Announcement and Reading will precede Margaret's reading

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STUART PAYNE

Monday 22 February 2021 at 19:30 SAST

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Stuart Payne’s first volume, Voices from Another Room, was published in 2018 by Douglas Reid Skinner’s Crane River Press and distributed by uHlanga. His poems have appeared in Stanzas, New Contrast and Carapace among others. Recently he has written reviews for Stanzas. Elisa Galgut wrote of Voices, ”It is a rare pleasure to read poetry that is sensitive to the demands of form without being constrained by it… Payne has a unique voice: quiet, contemplative and confident.”

Tony Voss wrote, “The sense of a lived life is moving, with loss and absence the major themes. Payne can also tell a story and paint a picture, the South African landscape occasionally opening out into a Mediterranean vision.”

Stuart will be reading from published and unpublished work.

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MELISSA SUSSENS

Monday 15 February 2021 at 19:30 SAST

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Melissa Sussens is a queer veterinarian and poet. Her work has appeared in Germ Magazine, Ja. Magazine, and Odd Magazine, among others. She was selected as one of the winners in the ClemenGold Writing Competition and has performed at the McGregor Poetry festival and at open mic events. She assists Megan Falley in teaching her international online poetry workshops, Poems That Don’t Suck. Melissa’s poems explore her experiences as a veterinarian; queerness; feminism, and becoming. She lives in Cape Town with her girlfriend and their two dogs. Follow her on Instagram

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