Humans can at times mimic planets drifting seemingly aimlessly through vast space. Space, where it’s difficult to judge where the centre is from the periphery or where the vertical is from the horizontal. The drift is a supposed ripple effect...

(poet, artist. 1939) i am a dirty little room with spiders in the corner of my skull my mouth a dark pit into which human droppings disappear the speck of rust in my heart worries me many people breathe in...

"The torture of being the unseen object, and constantly observed subject." - Amiri Baraka Identifying ”The Others” is all about power dynamics. It is the messy intersection and interaction of multiple identities, mixed with toxic socializing, body scaling and the assumed...

Friends! Our next quarterly print edition Poetry Potion 12: The Others is about to hit the shelves. We are proud to reveal the cover art for this edition, designed by Johannesburg artist Matthews Tshuma. This Edition is themed 'The Others'  and sees...

This is a call for the Poetry Potion Print Quarterly 12 This edition of Poetry Potion will launch in September and is focused on exploring the idea of The Others. Who or what exactly are The Others? "In dichotomies crucial...