Botsotso

Recent Publications

BLOOD SKIN BONES is a poetry collection that covers diverse sub themes, from nostalgia to world politics to the admiration

Thabiso Tshowa’s debut book of short stories, Mrova, is a striking collection of sketch-like tales that bring to life the

A thread that binds the ten stories in What the Trumpeter Said is their locations, exotic for some, routine for

“A daily writing practice over the past two years has led to my writing on a wide range of themes.

Written in an intensely lyrical mode with very strong elements of African narrative poetry, this collection is imbued with the

volcanoed/ηφαιστειωθής is a poetry collection that attempts to capture a contemplative journey undertaken through the simultaneous use of English and

Much of the backbone of the manuscript was written during the pandemic, and then gradually refined over the following years.

This prose poetry chapbook is my humble effort to bring attention to the ongoing catastrophe in the Middle East —

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

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