Poetry Relief Fund Web-Series is going out with a bang. Web-Series put together to financially assist poets begins its final season on 30 July 2020. South Africa, July 2020: The final season of the Poetry Relief Fund Web-Series is upon...

The Hear My Voice organisation launched the Poetry Relief Fund web-series to help poets survive lockdown. Applications are now open and a 2nd group of performers are invited to apply to the fund. In a recent survey conducted on the impact...

Participating poets for the annual Poetry Africa Festival, hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), which takes place in Durban from 7 to 12 October 2019, have been announced. Celebrating its 23rd edition, the festival features...

To Breathe Into Another Voice was recently launched at The Orbit Jazz club. This is an anthology of jazz poetry compiled and edited by avid Jazz lover and poet Myesha Jenkins. Published by Real African Publishers, the anthology explores jazz...

[caption id="attachment_3889" align="alignleft" width="332"] image courtesy of Poetry Africa[/caption] Poetry Potion had the privilege of talking to a Soweto Poet, Mafika Gwala (who isn’t from Soweto).  He started writing in the sixties and published extensively with titles such as Jol'iinkomo (1977) and No...