Review: Max Porter -Grief is The Thing With Feathers
Max Porter explores the state of grief through fragmented prose, famously described by its publisher Faber & Faber as "part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief." "Grief," Porter writes, "… is everything. It is the fabric of selfhood, and beautifully chaotic. It shares mathematical characteristics with many natural forms.”
Review: Red Cotton Vangile Gantsho
Chronicling a jaw dropping performance at this Years South African Book Fair, where activist and co-founder of impepho press, Vangile Gantsho read from her poetry collection Red Cotton (Published 2018) , delivering a timely performance in line with the recent uproar on the issue of violence against women.
Review: 1947 -
When Now Begins,
by Elisabeth Åsbrink
On the eve of September 9th, 2019, Swedish Ambassador Ms Cecilia Julin in collaboration with the team of the poetry collective Hear My Voice, hosted a reception at the Swedish residency in honor of the Sweden_South Africa Literary Exchange. The evening featured a short reading, Q&A, and discussion with Swedish journalist and author Elisabeth Åsbrink who read from her historical novel 1947: When Now Begins