Download or read book Greetings Emsawawa written by Botsotso Jesters and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saving Water written by Horwitz, Allan Kolski and published by Botsotso Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems cover many different states of mind and situations and are deeply rooted in South Africa but also travel to other continents. A strong historical consciousness is mixed with different examples of violence and dispossession as well as an awareness of subconscious associations so that the political and the surreal intermingle - the brutalities of war and exploitation are softened by the tenderness of love. Stylistically inventive, it explores new forms while striving for an overall musicality.
Download or read book Twelve one written by Alfred, Mike and published by Botsotso Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve + one contains interviews with 13 poets from Johannesburg who span a wide range with respect to age, gender, colour and class. Mike Alfred, who has contributed to journals for many years and has published several individual collections of his own work, provides an intimate opportunity for poets to tell both their biographical stories, describe their artistic aims and processes as well compiling a selection of poems which best represent their themes and styles. The result grants the reader a fascinating insight into a key cross-section of South African poets.
Download or read book Un Common Ground written by Kolski Horwitz and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2002-12-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten stories in Un/common Ground do, indeed, cover the unusual and generally unwritten about in South Africa with respect to both themes and styles. They range from adult love entanglements to the difficulties of children caught in the dissolution of families; from white supremacist racial murders to utopian societies of the 26th century; from drug induced hallucinations and trade in human body parts to the problems of creating a new identity for anti-apartheid activists faced by a radically changed world order.
Download or read book Collected Plays 2009 2017 written by Horwitz, Allan Kolski and published by Botsotso Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains five plays by the South African writer Allan Horwitz: The Pump Room; Comrade Babble; Boykie and Girlie; Jericho; and Book Marks. The plays explore the contradictions and dreams of the new and old South Africa, as well as universal themes that include the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other moral dilemmas.
Download or read book Meditations of a Non White written by Kolski Horwitz and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories from a master of the form, this collection scrapes away superficial assumptions and brings to life a multitude of characters whose concerns have dominated post-1994 South Africa but are in many respects timeless; in particular, they probe the limitations of middle class norms and blinkered identities and grapple with the diverse experiences of the many millions living on the margins of privileged ghettoes. Mixing satire with brutal realism, Kolski Horwitz dissects South African society with a keen and insightful eye.
Download or read book Botsotso 16 poetry short fiction essays photographs and drawings written by Botsotso and published by Botsotso Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Botsotso literary journal started in 1996 as a monthly 4 page insert in the New Nation, an independent anti-apartheid South African weekly and reached over 80,000 people at a time – largely politisized black workers and youth – with a selection of poems, short stories and short essays that reflected the deep changes taking place in the country at that time. Since the closure of the New Nation in 1999, the journal has evolved into a stand-alone compilation featuring the same mix of genres, and with the addition of photo essays and reviews. The Botsotso editorial policy remains committed to creating a mix of voices which highlight the diverse spectrum of South African identities and languages, particularly those that are dedicated to radical expression and examinations of South Africa's complex society.
Download or read book Sable written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blind Voices written by Kobus Moolman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soulfire Experience written by Siphiwe Ka Ngwenya and published by Botsotso Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Soweto, from the hilltops of initiation, Siphiwe ka Ngwenya adopts the mantle of Killjoy, dissecting our liberation, questioning our infatuations, baptizing us in the juicy waters of procreation. "Dance, Africa!" he cries, before hitting Hillbrow pavements parading brothels, singing for children whose anger and haste cannot be measured or bulldozed, singing for workers who brave themselves from darkness to darkness while the drumbeat serenades and bass strums compassionate, and then stroking the morning dew, turning poverty into fiction, cuddling loneliness, nakedness entangling with passion while commanding us to rise! to celebrate!
Download or read book Soweto written by Jodi Bieber and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2010 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Acclaimed home-grown photographer, Jodi Bieber has created an open-ended essay which is a celebration and a portrait of life in Soweto today. The importance of Soweto in the collective consciousness is hard to overstate. It registers as a place born of resistance, perhaps even embodying the South African struggle for freedom. But the birth of Kwaito is attributed to Soweto too. And beyond the grand narratives, there is and always was a proliferation of dancing, art and fashion in this place defined by its energy and cosmopolitan nature. Labelling and un-labelling, claiming and discarding, Sowetans have created Soweto anew - a phenomenon that is celebrated in this photographic publication which contemplates daily lived realities where here, as elsewhere, South Africans are continually reinventing themselves and their urban space."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book Jesus Third Way written by Walter Wink and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Malikhanye written by Mxolisi Nyezwa and published by Deep South Pub. This book was released on 2011 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mxolisi Nyezwa's poems are both violent and tender, with an immediacy of language that strikes the reader like a cry, or a note of music. Malikhanye is his third book of poems after Song Trials (2000) and New Country (2008). The book's title comes from the extended lyrical sequence following the death of his infant son Malikhanye, a poem of astonishing humility and beauty. With what has been described as the softest of voices, poet Mxolisi Nyezwa created one of the biggest stirs at the 2008 Poetry Africa festival in Durban, where Nyezwa launched his second collection, a volume called New Country. His readings drew enthusiastic acclaim - and great curiosity from those unfamiliar with his work. Ben Williams, editor, book.co.za October 2008 As with the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Mxolisi Nyezwa's poems register a chilling, physical response before the mind can fully apprehend their meaning. Rather than lull the reader with pretty lyricism, Nyezwa's work strives for transcendence suffused with pain, driving the arrow-tip of searching ever on. Kobus Moolman, writing about New Country Nyezwa characteristically works through an associative poetry, juxtaposing macro- and microcosm, the familiar and the surreal, the local and the universal; often jumping between the five senses [...] This collection extends and invigorates the concerns of the South African lyric in new and breathtaking directions, and I do not believe that tired old genre will ever be the same again. There are poems here as near perfect as anything to be found in the history of our poetry... Kelwyn Sole, reviewing Nyezwa's first collection Song Trials, Mail & Guardian June 2000 Nyezwa grew up in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, where he still lives. He runs a shop and business support service from a steel container in Motherwell township. He is founder and editor of the cultural magazine Kotaz, now in its 14th year.
Download or read book Four South African Poets written by Susan Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poetics and Precarity written by Myung Mi Kim and published by The University at Buffalo Robert Creeley Lectures in Poetry and Poetics. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when wars, acts of terrorism, and ecological degradation have intensified and isolationism, misogyny, and ethnic divisiveness have been given distinctively more powerful voice in public discourse, language itself often seems to have failed. The poets and critics in this book argue that language has the potential to address this increasing level of discord and precarity, and they negotiate ways to understand poetics, or the role of the poetic, in relation to language, the body politic, the human body, breath, the bodies of the natural environment, and the body of form. Poetry makes urgent issues audible and poetics helps to theorize those issues into critical consciousness. Poetry also functions as a cry to protest late capitalist imperialism, misogyny, racism, climate change, and all the debilitating conditions of everyday life. Hubs of concern merge and diverge; precarity takes differently gendered, historied, embodied, geopolitical manifestations. The contributors articulate a poetics that renders what has not yet been crystallized as discourse into fields of force. They also acknowledge the beauties of sound, poetry, and music, and celebrate the power of community, marking the surge of energy that can occur at a particular place at a particular moment. Ultimately, Poetics and Precarity fosters further conversations that will imagine the concerns of poetics as a continuously emerging field.
Download or read book In Search of Duende written by Federico García Lorca and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems are in Spanish, and in English translation.
