Black Boots is an eight-part poem that reflects on the Nigerian LGBTQ community, delineating the closeted lives of queer individuals in Nigeria and other parts of the world.
Poetry
Love letters to Cape Town: Creative residents pay tribute to the city in words and photos
Lidudumalingani Mqombothi, Catherine Rudolph and four other homegrown artists share odes to the city of Cape Town.
Summer romance: Here’s what love looks like to 7 South African artists
Nicola Robin, Kopano Maroga, Banele Khoza, Brett Charles Seiler, Ilze Wessels, Lindsey Raymond and Tarryn Hatchett share what being in love looks and feels like to them.
Creative Womxn 2017 | Poet Mandi Vundla: ‘I’m deeply connected to the struggles of the women I come from’
Acclaimed performance poet Mandi ‘Poefficient’ Vundla talks self-love, feminism and using words to address gender-based violence.
Koleka Putuma: Providing a poetic cure for society’s collective amnesia
Chaze Matakala speaks to Koleka Putuma, author of Collective Amnesia, who provides us with a poetic offering to soothe the inability to speak about memory.
My White Curtain: The moment that gave rise to a quiet poet
Valeria Geselev interviews Nokulunga Zondo, a nurse who wrote a poem that inspired a traveling group exhibition. What started with her frustration with the South African peculiar custom of white curtains, reveals the power of art as social commentary.
‘There’s no single meaning’: Poet Francine Simon speaks about her debut collection, ‘Thungachi’
Poet Francine Simon on mixed cultural influences, the perception of poetry and her debut collection, ‘Thungachi’.
Nick Mulgrew: Using dismay to disrupt the literary landscape
Nick Mulgrew isn’t just a man of many words, he’s also actively changing the local literary landscape.
Lebohang ‘Nova’ Masango: Seeking out safe spaces for a more inclusive generation
Bringing her writing into the realms of academia, activism, and poetry, Nova hopes to write a more inclusive story for this generation’s history books.
Meet Maya Wegerif, the fierce young poet who’s doing just fine
Maya ‘The Poet’ Wegerif lets her heartache and joy loose through written and spoken word poetry.
