Elizabeth Trew

Elizabeth Trew, born and raised in Cape Town, left and returned thirty years later in 1991.

She has a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Linguistics from the University of East Anglia, UK, and a Wits MA in English Education. A former librarian and adult education teacher in England a

d Johannesburg, her poems are published in journals and anthologies and a short story in Prodigal Daughters: stories of South African Women in Exile, KZN Press, 2013, edited by Lauretta Ngcobo. She was short-listed for the EU Sol Plaatje Poetry Anthology, 2013. Her debut collection is My Mother the Seal, Hands-On Books, 2023. She is a language-editor and volunteers at a Cape Town girls’ shelter.

Host: Zizipho Bam

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Lucienne Argent

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. 

Instagram: @LucienneArgent 

Host: Stuart Payne

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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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