top of page

Search
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...

OTW
Dec 9, 20241 min read
Â
Â


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...

OTW
Nov 27, 20241 min read
Â
Â


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:...

OTW
Nov 27, 20242 min read
Â
Â


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,...

OTW
Nov 20, 20241 min read
Â
Â


Frank Meintjies
Monday 18 Nov, 19:30 : Frank Meintjies will be speaking about his new book, A Place To Night In, released by Botsotso. In this poetry...

OTW
Nov 14, 20241 min read
Â
Â
A Brief Statement on Elisa Galgut and The Red Wheelbarrow
Some in our community will be aware that Elisa Galgut was disinvited from a reading for The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Collective on the...

OTW
Nov 6, 20241 min read
Â
Â


Harry Owen
Monday Nov 11, 19.30 : Originally from UK, where he was the inaugural Poet Laureate for Cheshire, Harry Owen moved to South Africa in...

OTW
Nov 6, 20241 min read
Â
Â


Alan Finlay
Monday November 4, 19:30: Alan Finlay is a South African poet living in Argentina, working as a writer, researcher and editor on issues...

OTW
Oct 29, 20241 min read
Â
Â


Nick Mulgrew
Nick Mulgrew was born in Durban in 1990, and lives in Edinburgh. Since 2014 he has run uHlanga, a small poetry press. He is the author of...

OTW
Oct 23, 20241 min read
Â
Â


Adré Marshall
Adré Marshall has written poetry since her schooldays. She was a winner in an interschools poetry competition for a poem she now finds...

OTW
Oct 15, 20241 min read
Â
Â
bottom of page