Lucienne Argent is a Cape Town-based writer, artist, and counsellor. She has poems published in the Sol Plaatje European Union Anthology, Stanzas, and Think of a Poem, and a short story in Karavan Press’s Tiger anthology. Her debut poetry collection, Self-portrait of a Guava, was published by Karavan Press in 2024.Â
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Host: Stuart Payne
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Jeannie Wallace McKeown is a South African poet, writer and editor and has published widely in journals and anthologies. Her first collection, Fall Awake, was published in 2020 by Modjaji Books, and her upcoming collection, Ornithology, will be published in April 2024. She has twice been the winner of the University of Canberra Vice Chancellor's International Poetry Prize, for 'Climate Emergency' in 2023, and for 'Global South' in 2024. In 2023, while taking a year off from PhD studies, she came second in an AVBOB Poetry Competition, the theme of which was Water is Life, with her poem 'Water Crisis'.Â
Host: Julia Louw Smuts
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Updated: Feb 24
Cancelled due to illness. Monday 24 February, 19:30: Archie Swanson is an awarded and widely published South African poet with five collections of poetry, and a sixth entitled winnowings, being published later this year. He is a past chair of the South African Literary Journal which publishes New Contrast, and with Bruce Jack was the originator of the National Poetry Prize. Archie will be in conversation with Douglas Reid Skinner about his recently released fifth collection, at the estuary. www.instagram.com/poetarchie
Host: Elisa Galgut
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