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.

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

And there’s a work in the show called Black Liberation Zodiac (Kgositsile’s Folly). Keorapetse Kgositsile was a South African poet who lived in the U.S. in the ‘70s and ‘80s, so this is ...

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges ...

The performances will run from March 4 to 16 at the Keorapetse William Kgositsile Theatre at the UJ Arts Centre in Auckland Park. Read more: University of Johannesburg (UJ) athlete Sabelo ...

Then, when it was screened on TV in 1987, a national furore erupted. "FOUR LETTER TV POEM FURY" thundered the front page of one British newspaper, condemning the "cascade of expletives".

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 ...

But there's a problem: "pius" Aeneas, as he's called in the poem (meaning dutiful and, for lack of a better term, job-oriented), has his eyes on his mission to found a new city for his people ...