Keith Gottschalk

Keith Gottschalk serves the National Writers' Association of South Africa, New Contrast, Off the Wall, and convenes the Lansdowne Local Writers' Workshop.  

     His first poetry collection was Emergency Poems. He was awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver because these anti-apartheid poems "draw critical attention to oppressive and unjust laws through performative political poetry. His work provided strength and motivated many people to fight for liberation."

     His latest poetry collection is Cosmonauts do it in Heaven, an irreverent take on astronomy and spaceflight. He shows that both classical icons like the moon and stars, and also spacecraft, can serve as metaphors for romance and tragedy.

Host: Stuart Payne

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Marcelle Olivier

Marcelle Olivier is a writer and academic from Cambridge. She is a Commonwealth Scholar and holds a doctorate from Oxford University; her research explores overlaps between gender, art, society, and evolution. She has taught at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, worked in HE development, and is currently with Anglia Ruskin University. Marcelle has published and translated widely in the UK and South Africa, and her translations of contemporary Afrikaans poetry appear in In A Burning Sea (Protea, 2014). Her own poetry is thematically linked - often oppositionally, and through theory - to gendered power, myth, science, and landscape. 

Host: Julia Smuts Louw

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Childhood poems

Host: Julia Smuts Louw

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