Ntsiki Mazwai has reignited her feud with Gayton McKenzie and wants an apology and financial compensation from him after he ...

A backlash continues to rage about the contentious delegation sent by the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture to Cuba in February to represent South African writers.

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

The ǀxam language has been carved into a new building at Rhodes House to honour the labour and suffering of Africans during colonialism. Pope Francis has transformed the church from an ...