OFF THE WALL POETRY

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

https://www.instagram.com/new_contrast/p/C5gMe28KxCJ/ First Prize   KEITH OLIVER LEWIS   the sum of absence Second Prize   PHELELANI...

https://www.newcontrast.net/about-us/national-poetry-prize/national-poetry-prize-winners-2022/ First Prize   STUART PAYNE   Words for...

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...

This week saw the sad loss of one of South Africa's great literary figures and perhaps the foremost poet of the Afrikaans language:...

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

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...

Some in our community will be aware that Elisa Galgut was disinvited from a reading for The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Collective on the...

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