Jeannie McKeown

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'. 

Host: Julia Louw Smuts

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Archie Swanson

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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Sarah Uheida

Monday 10th February: Sarah Uheida is a Libyan poet and essayist based in Cape Town. She holds bachelors and masters degrees in English Literature, specializing in poetry, from Stellenbosch University. In 2021, Sarah was awarded the prestigious Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship. She is also the recipient of the 2020 Dan Veach Prize for Young Poets. Sarah’s poetry and lyric essays have been widely anthologized and published in notable journals. She is a regular contributor to poetry readings hosted by groups like Off the Wall and The Red Wheelbarrow. Her debut poetry collection, Not This Tender, is set for release in May.

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