by Lizo Mkhize It’s 4am A glass of Glenfiddich 12 in my hand I dial your number A familiar voice speaks As Tony peeks Out from his hole Near the thing you built And grabs the bread I left…
Keep them close
by Xihluke Mlangeni There was never smoke without a fire nor a tail without a head Behind every loss are memories that drift in the sky when the soul rises Father died one day And on that cold pained…
2 poems by Lindiwe Mpofu
Zimbabwean gestation another day, another spell of gut churning nausea morning sickness from the growing foetus of loneliness and the longing to return to the soil that formed me, the ground where my umbilical cord is buried homesick but…
INVITE: Launch of Botsoso 18, Botsotso 19 and Collected Plays: 2009-2017 – AKH: 7 September 2018
Botsotso 18 – Poetry Sodom and Gomorrah – Napo Masheane Miscegenation – M. Labuschagne You Flew the Calculus of the World – Awogbemila Temitope Ayodeji Poised Poems; Slinky; Bona Fide – Natalie Railoun Now I can…
Three poems by Allan Kolski Horwitz
Bringing Forth Eve was there Alone She had no need for another She was full breasted And she lay in the garden And seeded herself And her milk made her happy Eve after Eve after Eve But when the moon…