Sizakele Nkosi

Sizakele Nkosi is a South African poet, educator and cultural activist whose work bridges spirituality, language and township life. Raised in Soweto and based in Kimberley, she writes in isiZulu, English and Isicamtho to explore memory, sound and survival. Her poetry collection U-Grand Malume? was shortlisted for the Ingrid Jonker Poetry Prize and longlisted for the NIHSS Award. She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Sol Plaatje University and the founder of Kabomedi, a cultural platform and living archive of township poetics. Her work, rooted in ritual, music and the body, honours the resilience and everyday beauty of Black South African life. 

Host: Stuart Payne

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Zoë Boshoff

Please join us on Monday 20 Oct for a reading by Zoë Boshoff.

Zoë Boshoff is a poet and lover of poetry. She has had poems published in Stanzas and New Contrast. Zoë will be sharing poems from her draft debut collection Wild Swimming, an exploration of the relationship between her own emerging nature, and her surroundings.

Time: 19.30

Host: Julia Smuts Louw

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Deborah Seddon

Deborah Seddon was born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literary Studies in English at Rhodes University. Her poetry has been published in various journals, locally and abroad, including Ons Klyntji, Botsotso, the Sol Plaatje European Union Anthology, the AvBob Poetry Project, the Badilisha Poetry X-Change Archive of Pan-African poets, the Gerald Kraak Anthology, and Sinister Wisdom. Her poems have been shortlisted for the Gerald Kraak Award and the New Contrast National Poetry Prize.  Her debut poetry collection, Magnitude, will be published by Dryad Press in October 2025.

Host: Stuart Payne

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