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Poems to set us on fire | Kirsten Deane
4 days ago
4 days ago
Poetry has always sharpened and fed our curiosity for deep experience.
As South Africans prepare to celebrate Women’s Day, The AVBOB Poetry Project celebrates the extraordinary voice of Kirsten Deane, whose debut collection, Disabled, But (uHlanga, 2026) records the daily experiences of...
Don’t Hesitate! | AVBOB Poetry Mini-Competition winners
12 days ago
12 days ago
The AVBOB Poetry Project’s second mini-competition of 2026 welcomed many fine submissions from poets around the country in response to the call “Don’t hesitate!”. Poets engaged enthusiastically, presenting poems that showed awareness of the potency and sensitivity to the pote...
Points of view | Ari Sitas
18 days ago
18 days ago
During secondary school, most of us are exposed to romantic nature poets under the spell of picturesque surroundings. We will probably also be required to read a few explicitly political poems that protest and speak truth to power. There are ways to do both these things at the same time: describe be...
