South African poetry information

The poetry of South Africa covers a broad range of themes, forms and styles. This article discusses the context that contemporary poets have come from...

African poetry encompasses a wide variety of traditions arising from Africa's 55 countries and from evolving trends within different literary genres....

the African continent, participate in the 7- to 10-day Poetry Africa, an international poetry festival that is based mostly in Durban, South Africa, during...

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of noted South African poets, poets born or raised in South Africa, whether living there or overseas, and writing in one of the South African languages...

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"pioneer" of poetry in Lesotho and even founded a nationwide organization, Poetry is Alive. In addition, she is active in the South African poetry community...

Known as the father of South African poetry, he was the first successful English language poet and author to describe South Africa's scenery, native peoples...

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compiled in Zulu then translated by South African poet Mazisi Kunene and published in 1979 in the Heinemann African Writers Series. The poem follows the...

media related to African literature. Things We Inherited: Voices from Africa Cordite Poetry Review New African Literature resource The Africa_(Bookshelf) at...

Lifetime Honorary Award by the South African Department of Arts and Culture for his lifelong dedication to African and world poetry and literary arts. Brutus...

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (in an earlier 1963 edition Modern Poetry from Africa) is a 1984 poetry anthology edited by Gerald Moore and...

Tyla. Early records of music in South Africa as well as Southern Africa indicate a fusion of cultural traditions: African, European and Asian. Modern country's...

War poetry is poetry on the topic of war. While the term is applied especially to works of the First World War, the term can be applied to poetry about...

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Paperbook of South African English Poetry, Michael Chapman, editor (1986, AD Donker) 25/25: Twenty-Five Years of English South African Poetry, David Bunyan...

was born in Bloemfontein in 1892. South Africa has a rich tradition of oral poetry. Several influential African poets became prominent in the 1970s...

Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange...

court poetry. In African cultures, performance poetry is traditionally a part of theatrics, which was present in all aspects of pre-colonial African life...

the Seventies; A Century of South African Poetry; A New Book of South African Poetry; Out of the African Ark; Poetry South East 6; and The Oxford Book...

phase (c. 1917–1934) within Afrikaans-language poetry that came in the wake of the zenith of Afrikaans poetry that described the sufferings of the Anglo-Boer...

Bonginkosi Dlamini (born 24 April 1977), popularly known as Zola 7, is a South African kwaito musician, actor, writer, TV presenter, and poet. Dlamini began...

1987). "'Azikwelwa' (We Will Not Ride): Politics and Value in Black South African Poetry". Critical Inquiry. 13 (3): 597–623. doi:10.1086/448410. S2CID 153523232...

May 1944) is a South African poet and writer. He became involved in political resistance to the apartheid government by joining the African National Congress...

1952), who also writes under the name Patricia Schonstein-Pinnock, is a South African-Italian novelist, poet, memoirist, author of children’s books and curator...