Keith Gottschalk has published two collections (Emergency Poems, 1992, & Cosmonauts do it in Heaven, 2022) and was awarded the National Order of Ikhamanga in silver in 2023 for his anti-apartheid performative poems.
This evening is however dedicated to the world-renowned Russian poet Anna Akhmatova 1889 - 1966. Her poems are regarded as mostly in the acmeist school, critical of the symbolist school. Her first husband was shot by a Bolshevik firing squad; her second husband died in a concentration camp. Keith will read through her epic lament, Requiem.
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