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Timing | Haidee Kotze
12 days ago
12 days ago
Poetry is mostly written in free verse nowadays, which means that it does not rely on rhyme or traditional forms for its effect. Even so, rhythm and timing remain as important as ever.
This month, The AVBOB Poetry Project features a memorable poem called ‘Twice over’ by poet and a...
Breaking silence | Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal
19 days ago
19 days ago
Poetry has always provided one of the few safe spaces from which to explore one’s identity and find one’s own voice.
No-one knows this better than Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal, an award-winning poet, musician and lecturer with two Afrikaans collections, asof geen berge ooit hier gew...
CELEBRATING NINE YEARS OF SOUTH AFRICAN POETRY: THE 2025 AVBOB POETRY COMPETITION
Fri, 02 October 2026
Fri, 02 October 2026
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&...
