Geoffrey Haresnape

Please join us for poetry and wine at 36 Elizabeth Avenue, Pinelands, on Monday 4th August at 19:30.

‘Words are my curds

and rhymes my whey.’

~ Going for It

Geoff Haresnape has authored six collections of poems: Drive of the Tide (Maskew Miller- 1976) , New-Born Images (Justified Press- 1991), Mulberries in Autumn, (Snailpress- 1996), The Living and the Dead & Selected Poems (Snailpress -2005), and Where the Wind Wills (Echoing Green Press- 2011). This reading will help him to launch his The Poems of Tom Southcross appearing in The Explainer’s Press Poetry Chapbook Series (2025). Geoff has been much anthologized in South Africa.

He has won several poetry prizes and has been published in the US, Canada, the UK, Israel and India.

We would love you to join us.

Kobus Moolman

KOBUS MOOLMAN

Kobus has published seven collections of poetry, two collections of plays, a collection of

short stories and also edited an anthology of poetry, prose and art by South African writers living with disabilities. He is Professor of Creative Writing and English Literature in the Department of English Studies at the University of the Western Cape. He has won numerous local and international awards for his work. His most recent publication collection is Fall Risk (uHlanga Press, 2024). In his writing and research Kobus explores the relationship between the non-normative body and experimental textual practices that challenge generic boundaries.

Host: Stuart Payne

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Allan Kolski Horwitz

ALLAN KOLSKI HORWITZ grew up in Cape Town. Between 1974 and

1985 he lived in the Middle East, Europe and North America, returning to

South Africa in 1986. A member of the Botsotso Jesters performance poetry

group, he is the co-ordinator of Botsotso Publishing and the Botsotso

Ensemble. He has previously worked in the trade union and social housing

movements as an organizer and educator. He lives in Johannesburg.

His solo books of poetry are entitled Saving Water, There are Two

Birds at My Window and The Colours of Our Flag. His short fiction is

contained in three collections – Un/common Ground, Out of the Wreckage

and Meditations of a Non-White White He has also written a children’s

parable, Blue Wings and a novel, The Chronicles of Shalom Court.

Host: Stuart Payne

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