JEROME COETZEE

IN-PERSON at A Touch of Madness (Observatory, CT) | Mon 18 July 2022 | 19:30 SAST

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This is an IN-PERSON event only Jerome Coetzee grew up in Bishop Lavis, Cape Town. He is currently a Master’s candidate at the University of the Western Cape and his research focus is Afrofuturism in contemporary Afrikaans literature. He has published poetry in LitNet, Die Student, MatieLit, (New Contrast), Writing360. Jerome is a National Poetry Prize winner for 2021.

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

KAREN LAZAR

Monday 04 July 2022 at 19:30 SAST

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Karen Lazar is a lecturer in English and professional literacies at several actual and virtual campuses in Johannesburg. She was educated at Wits, BA to PhD in English, and lives in Jozi. Karen is the author of a collection of creative non-fiction Hemispheres: Inside a Stroke (Modjaji Books, 2011.) She writes widely in the field of medical humanities, through which she endeavours, as a stroke survivor who has language, to put forward the voices and perceptions of disabled people who may not otherwise be heard or seen. In Echoes, Karen offers ‘the world from the seated and off-centre view.’

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MARGARET CLOUGH

Monday 27 June 2022 at 19:30 SAST

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Margaret Clough is a retired Soil Chemist and Physical Science teacher. A late developer as a writer, she only started writing after retiring to Cape Town. She has written several short stories and children’s plays and has published five books of poetry: At Least the Duck Survived and The Last to Leave published by Modjadji Books; Portrait in Thread and A Pious Pachyderm self-published; and Living Locked Down with Robyn Jordaan and Shirley Renwick. Her poems have been published in Carapace, New Contrast, Stanzas, Aerodrome, Type/cast and the anthology, Absolute Africa, as well as more than one McGregor Anthology.

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