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ABOUT THE COLLECTION BLOOD SKIN BONES is a poetry collection that covers diverse sub themes, from nostalgia to world politics to the admiration of the natural world to deep self-introspection. But the dominant packaging theme of this collection is mortality. Mortality of the body, the mind and the soul. It interrogates the perennial wrestling between a human entity and mortality. It dissects the conversation between the two entities.

ISBN: 9780639886739 Purchase ABOUT THE COLLECTION Thabiso Tshowa’s debut book of short stories, Mrova, is a striking collection of sketch-like tales that bring to life the rhythm, voice, movement, and activity of daily life in the small town of Bethal, Mpumalanga. From taxi bosses and young lovers, to promising young sports stars, spaza shop owners, and small-time thugs, the stories in Mrova embody the voices and attitudes of the people and places they depict.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION A thread that binds the ten stories in What the Trumpeter Said is their locations, exotic for some, routine for others – like life itself. Set in Botswana and other parts of Southern Africa, as well as Eastern Europe and the South Pacific, they feature (mostly) ordinary people in extraordinary situations, disentangling themselves from, or rationalising, ambiguous moral challenges.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION “A daily writing practice over the past two years has led to my writing on a wide range of themes. I suspect that someone pours a little poetry dust into my ear each night as I sleep because I wake up with a few lines of rhyme from the dream world to tinker with from the first moment of the day. However, the pile of sodden clothes in the bathroom reminds me that it had not been an ordinary night – and that an effort to capture what had gone before, was required.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION Written in an intensely lyrical mode with very strong elements of African narrative poetry, this collection is imbued with the spirit of the imbongi, in that its language is lush and overwhelming, incantatory and rhythmic in its power, Nelson Ratau incorporates social happenings with the larger than life, the heroic.

ISBN: 978-618-592-814-8 Purchase ABOUT THE COLLECTION volcanoed/ηφαιστειωθής is a poetry collection that attempts to capture a contemplative journey undertaken through the simultaneous use of English and Greek languages. Each double poem is not a translation of one another but rather the product of a process in which one version informs the other, and the two poems intertwine and evolve alongside each other.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION Much of the backbone of the manuscript was written during the pandemic, and then gradually refined over the following years. Many of the ideas had been stirring in me for some years before, based on experiences from having lived in South America, and then from my work in South Africa’s education NGO world, where one project in particular allowed to travel extensively around the country and all nine of its provinces.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION “This prose poetry chapbook is my humble effort to bring attention to the ongoing catastrophe in the Middle East — Israel’s engineered famine, its genocide, infanticide, and femicide of the Palestinian people. In addition, its total disregard for international law, and the targeting and smearing of anyone who dares to speak out against the brutality and barbarism.

Interview with Salimah Valiani conducted by Sarah Lubala. 3 July 2024, IGoli Sarah Lubala: Your book IGoli EGoli navigates through the diverse and contrasting elements of Johannesburg. What inspired you to chart the city like a map in your poetry, and how did you decide which locations and elements to include? Salimah Valiani: I am someone who thrives on journeying and walking. I tend to snap mental and camera photos in the different places where I work, live and walk.

Review: “too much water”? Sarah Lubala’s ‘A History of Disappearance’ BY WESLEY MACHESOon1 NOVEMBER , 2022 Retelling her experience of meeting a Nigerian man on a crowded street in Hong Kong, the persona in Sarah Lubala’s “I am never more black”, from her 37-strong debut poetry collection A History of Disappearance (2022), concludes that “we are everywhere at once” (p.49).