Notes from the Dream Kingdom by K. G. Goddard
“The genesis of this long poem lies in a twelve-year sojourn in Saudi Arabia, where I worked, teaching at a university in the oil-rich eastern province of that country. A Place to Night in by Frank Meintjies
In this poetry collection, Frank Meintjies navigates, to quote one of the poems, “the land, the land, the land” and engages with issues of dislocation, diverse landscapes, nature, attachments to place, and community. Rubble by Abu Bakr Solomons
In this, his third collection of poetry, Solomons foregrounds portraits as well as memories of personal shifts, and reflections in the context of a broad national and global milieu ruptured, intermittently, by pandemics and political upheavals. Ultimately, the poetry seeks to forge a creative fulcrum on which to balance this unfolding vision, share insights and sustain
engagement. Blakcmoon – Mick Raubenheimer
“It is said that writing about music is the equivalent of dancing about architecture. Mick Raubenheimer, however, grasps in Bukowskian prose the embodied, emotional and cerebral qualities of improvisation, as well as the torsions of South African music subcultures. Writing about improvised music requires the disruption of form. Using irruptive anecdotes and in capturing interruptive moments of listening, Raubenheimer comes as close as is possible to the qualities of the music itself.
Staid histories of South African jazz inevitably regulate the music. Mick Raubenheimer captures musical events in all their disruptive singularity.” Damien’s Shoes – Ret’sepile Makamane
Damien's Shoes
by Ret’sepile Makamane
My son, Damien, makes fires that flicker throughout rainy June nights. He moves about the shores of Lake … Read more