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CELEBRATING NINE YEARS OF SOUTH AFRICAN POETRY: THE 2025 AVBOB POETRY COMPETITION
7 days ago
7 days ago
The 11 winners of the 2025 AVBOB Poetry Competition, one from each of South Africa’s official written languages, were honoured at the AVBOB Poetry Gala on Thursday, 1 October 2026, at Pretoria Country Club. The event celebrated South Africa’s rich cultural diversity and reaffirmed AVBOB&...
Komvandaan | Lynthia Julius
16 days ago
16 days ago
We South Africans are fond of talking about our rich, diverse cultural heritage. But it is important to remember the hard work done every day by poets, translators and activists to keep indigenous languages and traditions alive.
No one knows this better than Lynthia Julius, a poet born in Nam...
Something old, something new | Elizabeth Trew
Wed, 09 September 2026
Wed, 09 September 2026
For as long as poems and songs have been recorded, poets have used a multitude of strategies to help us see the world more clearly and experience it more fully.
One of these strategies is to describe something from the distant past and to contrast it with the way we live now. Such a poem migh...
