It is July and Poetry Potion celebrates its 15th birthday this month! Special congratulations to our founder Za for her vision and willingness to create and maintain Poetry Potion as a platform and home for poets from all walks of...

“I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.”― Philip Larkin Poetry becomes many different things to many different people at many different times in...

The announcement of Prof Mongane Wally Serote as South Africa’s 3rd Poet Laureate has drawn a weird mixture of both praise and ire from poets and some in the literary world. To say the decision to have Ntate Serote as...

And then, you walked out of your body. And for a moment we drifted, aimlessly Tears bashing against the hull of this new day Whose sky will we fly in now? Who will pray for us now? And then the...

This is a call for submissions for Poetry Potion 14: This way we salute you. This edition of poetry potion is inspired by the poetry collection ‘This way I salute you’ [Kwela books, 2007] by the late South African Poet Laureate...