Monday 22 February 2021 at 19:30 SAST
Stuart Payne’s first volume, Voices from Another Room, was published in 2018 by Douglas Reid Skinner’s Crane River Press and distributed by uHlanga. His poems have appeared in Stanzas, New Contrast and Carapace among others. Recently he has written reviews for Stanzas. Elisa Galgut wrote of Voices, ”It is a rare pleasure to read poetry that is sensitive to the demands of form without being constrained by it… Payne has a unique voice: quiet, contemplative and confident.”
Tony Voss wrote, “The sense of a lived life is moving, with loss and absence the major themes. Payne can also tell a story and paint a picture, the South African landscape occasionally opening out into a Mediterranean vision.”
Stuart will be reading from published and unpublished work.