Abigail George

Pushcart Prize nominee Abigail George is a Port Elizabeth-based blogger, essayist, poet and short story writer. Recipient of two grants from the National Arts Council in Johannesburg, one from the Centre for the Book in Cape Town and another from ECPACC in East London, she briefly studied film at the Newtown Film and Television School in Johannesburg.

Vonani Bila

Abigail George New writing 2016-01-27

"Only do this I tell myself.
Write a poem for yourself.
That narrative is interspersed
With both despair and hope."

Virginia Woolf’s River Ouse (an experimental poem in eleven haiku)

Abigail George New writing 2015-12-21

"Search Woolf’s voyage out ..."

Paris, France

Abigail George New writing 2015-11-25

"You threw me away./ Said you were tired."

Hani, Malema, Ramaphosa, Zuma

Abigail George New writing 2015-11-06

An experimental poem in twelve haiku

Julius Malema

Abigail George New writing 2015-11-06

"Malema, my Noah’s Ark./ My Jonah’s Whale./ The Johannesburg people’s patriarch./ My country of ice cream."

23 October 2015, South Africa

Abigail George New writing 2015-10-27

"I remembered/ Bantu education./ Hector Pieterson./ Youth taking to the streets."

Lamb (five haiku)

Abigail George 2014-04-17 Brilliant inner sea –
His cry glides across the moon.
This mother tongue comforts me.

Oyster

Abigail George 2014-04-01 "The fisherman looks down to see an oyster in his net
that seems to say “Come for me. When will you come for me Saviour?”
I surrender! I climb into the river of silk
hiding the bad talent of a needle and dignified flowering bone."

Japan

Abigail George 2014-03-26 "Their words are as old as a telescope, fossils, totem poles,
tribes, trees, Darwinism, the touch of the hands
of my paternal grandmother, antiques,
the coelacanth, the dishes that are waiting
for me in the sink, the footprint of childhood
On the beach sucking a waterfall of sea."