poet profile: Vangi Gantsho

seeing the poetic landscape, through vangi-tinted glasses Vangile Gantsho has been steadily making her way into the poetry scene since the mid 2000s. Starting out in poetry circles at varsity, she has worked her way in quietly and steadily. As...

writers’ block: Poetry Genre

Like all other creative disciplines, poetry has difference genres. Some times genre that can easily be confused with form. The differences aren’t always that easy to define or separate but if you thing of form in this way - form...

coming up: New Poetry Potion

print quarterly number two! with Mphutlane wa Bofelo, Praat Poetry Festival, poetry, writer's block and poetry seen... get the print edition for R50 | digital edition for R25 pre-order here > [email protected] published in print quarterly number two Every Generation

Poem of the Day: I Expect More From You by Vangi Gantsho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoUOmglD7Cg Vangi Gantsho is the founder of No Camp Chairs Poetry Picnic which takes place at the Union Buildings gardens every second Sunday of the month in Pretoria. She blogs at Vangi's Africa and was profiled in our first print quarterly...

A Review of Poetry Potion: On Being Human // 2013.01

The world of Poetry is like the world of Jazz. There are multiple layers of nuanced existentialisms, familiar phrases, essentialist expressions and traditions within mores and cultural pros and cons. There are also parallel universes or multi-verses, literal meanings and...