Reviews
A place to night in Review
A place to night in Review Original work by Frank Meintjies Review by Moira Lovell (Stanzas No. 34 June/July 2025) In A place to night in, Frank Meintjies examines his ...
An Interview with İlyas Tunç, a poet from Turkey
An Interview with İlyas Tunç, a poet from Turkey by Vonani Bila 1- Who is İlyas Tunç and when did you encounter poetry ?I was born in 1956 in Ordu, ...
Down the Baakens Underworld Review
Down the Baakens Underworld Review Original work by Brian Walter Review by Tony Voss (Stanzas No. 34 June/July 2025) Gqeberha has featured in some impressive books recently: Ayanda Billie’s KwaNobuhle ...
Grab and Bang – Man, Where’s the Condom? AIDS Crisis in South Africa Today
Grab and Bang – Man, Where’s the Condom? AIDS Crisis in South Africa Today by Vonani Bila In 1990, South Africa had an infection rate of less than one percent ...
James Matthews: Still Kicking Butt @ 77
James Matthews: Still Kicking Butt @ 77 by Mphutlane Wa Bofelo Veteran educator and social activist, Yusuf Cajee recently shared with me his recollections of the time he was arrested by ...
Jim Pascual Agustin’s Bloodred Dragonflies. A Poetry Review by Sihle Ntuli
Jim Pascual Agustin’s Bloodred Dragonflies. A Poetry Review by Sihle Ntuli Poet: Jim Pascual AgustinPublisher: Deep SouthYear: 2022ISBN 978192847646790 PagesMakhanda The manifestation of this particular New & Selected collection of poetry, ...
Mthwa and Hlubi
Mthwa and Hlubi by Mbizo Mzamane We Africans do not refer to ourselves as coming from or being members of “tribes”. Both presently and historically the term used to indicate ...
President Zuma, The Market and the Spectre of Culture
President Zuma, The Market and the Spectre of Culture by Mark Espin Much has been written about this country’s President, his questionable morality, his prowess with machines and his potent ...
Shift in Being: Henali Kuit’s The incredible beat of my heart. A Critical Review by Warren Jeremy Rourke.
Shift in Being: Henali Kuit’s The incredible beat of my heart. A Critical Review. by Warren Jeremy Rourke Author: Henali KuitPublisher: Deep SouthYear: 2021ISBN: 9781928476443102 PagesMakhandaTranslated into the Afrikaans, as ...
Teamhw SbonguJesu’s Bury Me Naked. A Poetry Review by Sihle Ntuli
Teamhw SbonguJesu’s Bury Me Naked. A Poetry Review by Sihle Ntuli Poet: Teamhw SbonguJesuPublisher: TNG PublishingYear: 2022ISBN: 978062097494366 PagesPietermaritzburg In his debut book of poems Bury Me Naked, Teamhw SbonguJesu introduces ...
The Ballad of Sugar Moon and Coffin Deadly
The Ballad of Sugar Moon and Coffin Deadly by Mphutlane wa Bofelo Aryan Kaganof is a writer who possesses the rare capability to capture grotesque and bleak scenes and moments in ...
The Liberation in Question
The Liberation in Question by Jean-Francois Kouadio Abidjan is indescribable tonight. All thieves, out-laws and maladjusted people that the quasi-informal situation of the Coup d’Etat has excited, are at their ...
Utoponil: A Breakthrough in the Treatment of Xenophobia
Utoponil: A Breakthrough in the Treatment of Xenophobia by J. Martin Labuschagne There was a fluttering of papers and white coats as the new psychiatry students walked behind Professor Doctor ...