Botsotso

Recent Publications

In the shadow of Israel’s genocide of the people of Gaza (almost all refugees from the ethnic cleansing perpetrated by

In this, his ninth poetry collection, Kelwyn Sole gives voice to a wide range of concerns, characteristically interweaving the personal

The collection deals with strange and mysterious subject matter such as mysticism, surrealism, Middle Eastern mythology, and dreams.

Some months ago Mike Alfred and I decided to compile an anthology of new poems about Joburg. There have been

Du Toit draws on his childhood years in Botswana (the Bechuanaland Protectorate, as it was in those days) to examine

The text reflects on the past, and many of the troubles we face today were wrought in the past. The

“The genesis of this long poem lies in a twelve-year sojourn in Saudi Arabia, where I worked, teaching at a university

In this poetry collection, Frank Meintjies navigates, to quote one of the poems, “the land, the land, the land” and

In this, his third collection of poetry, Solomons foregrounds portraits as well as memories of personal shifts, and reflections in

My collection embraces different kinds of poetry. Some poems come via my home in Pimville Soweto, the urban sounds and

An audio-drama commissioned by ILRIG (International Labour Research and Information Group) and produced by the BOTSOTSO arts collective with a

Du Toit draws on his childhood years in Botswana (the Bechuanaland Protectorate, as it was in those days) to examine

“It is said that writing about music is the equivalent of dancing about architecture. Mick Raubenheimer, however, grasps in Bukowskian

Jana van Niekerk is a South African writer living in Cape Town. Her short stories and poetry appear in multiple

John Mateer’s parents were born in Cape Town, living there until their twenties. From his early childhood, their nostalgia for

A yellow haze hid the kopjes. A lonely farmhouse on the arid veldt. Madge sighed. Too hot and still, as

Expectation as a human feature is naturally flawed. This entity, very easily and perhaps deceptively so as someone more cynical

Botsotso has long admired the work of the late Angifi Proctor Dladla, and valued him as a friend, artist and