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Athol Williams
Athol Williams is a poet and applied philosopher based at Oxford University. He has twice won the Sol Plaatjie European Union Poetry...

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Feb 111 min read
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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...

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Feb 41 min read
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Zizipho Bam
Monday 3 Feb, 19:30: Zizipho Bam is an award-winning poet who is celebrated for exploring love, longing, loss, and healing. Her debut...

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Jan 271 min read
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Welcome!
We're delighted to welcome Zizipho Bam to the team. Zizipho is an award-winning poet who is celebrated for exploring love, longing, loss,...

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Jan 71 min read
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Dec 9, 20240 min read
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South African National Poetry Prize winners 2023
https://www.instagram.com/new_contrast/p/C5gMe28KxCJ/ First Prize  KEITH OLIVER LEWIS  the sum of absence Second Prize  PHELELANI...

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Dec 9, 20241 min read
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South African National Poetry Prize winners 2022
https://www.newcontrast.net/about-us/national-poetry-prize/national-poetry-prize-winners-2022/ First Prize  STUART PAYNE  Words for...

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Dec 9, 20241 min read
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Anne Graaff
Mon 2 Dec, 19.30 : Anne Graaff is a poet, artist and art historian living between France and South Africa. As a writer she has written...

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Nov 27, 20241 min read
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In memory of Breyten Breytenbach
This week saw the sad loss of one of South Africa's great literary figures and perhaps the foremost poet of the Afrikaans language:...

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Nov 27, 20242 min read
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Brian Walter
19.30, Mon 25 Nov: Brian Walter (born 1956) taught at Chapman High School in Gelvandale, Gqeberha, and at the University of Fort Hare,...

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Nov 20, 20241 min read
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