Off the Wall Year-End Function
We're pleased to invite you to our closing event for 2026, and our first physical get-together in many months! Please join us at Alliance Française to celebrate poetry and the wonderful online connections we've made with each other in 2026. Our featured poets are our valued OTW committee members, juli Jana Roussouw and Harry Owen. Please avail yourselves of the open mic following their readings!
When: 18.30 for 19.00 until 21.00, Monday 30 November
Where: Alliance Française, 155 Loop St
RSVP: to otwpoetry@gmail.com by 15 November
Drinks available for purchase; snacks provided
JULI JANA ROUSSOUW
juli Jana has two chapbooks published and has been featured in local and international magazines. She was a featured poet/artist in The High Window (London). She will be reading from her debut collection SCENT OF PLACES. 'The poems are diary entries of a pilgrim through life. The reader travels along and is enriched by the experience, emerging from it with a broadened perspective,' writes Daniel Hugo. She visits amongst others London, Paris, Venice, Tuscany, Spain, and South Africa.
HARRY OWEN
Forthright in his commitment to the natural world, and a passionate advocate of poetry, Harry Owen is the author of eleven collections, the latest being Mindforest (Quilled Ink Press, 2026). He has also edited three anthologies, including For Rhino in a Shrinking World (2013). A fourth, When the South Spoke (Poets Printery) will be published soon. After a lifetime of academic obscurity, in 2023 Harry achieved his PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Pretoria. Following 14 years in the Eastern Cape, he now lives embraced by mountains and wine estates in Kylemore, near Stellenbosch.
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