I Am a Poet: A South African Poetry Documentary by Ikaye Masisi

The inspiration behind the doccie was to begin a journey of documenting the soul, energy and spirit of poetry in these contemporary times. I was curious, and still am, about the beautiful madness inherent in audiences being moved by the...

Call for Submissions: Every Generation

This is a call for the second print quarterly of Poetry Potion. In his essay, On National Culture (Wretched of the Earth , 2001 ed), Frantz Fanon examines national culture as affected by colonialism and the revolution. Out of this...

Submit for the Print Quarterly

Poetry Potion is primarily a digital publication but from this year, we are going to produce a print quarterly. Each of the print editions will be themed. Here is the first theme: on being human I'm looking for poems that...

poet profile: Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali

“Honest writers write what they see, experience, live.” Forty one years ago, Songs of the Cowhide Drum was published. This book, a humble collection of poetry, would become the key that would open doors for the writer, Oswald Mtshali. Liberal...