Kyle Allen
Kyle Allan is a 24-year-old writer, poet and occasional columnist for the Witness who lives in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands with his wife Thobeka and son Seymour. He has had poetry published in Fidelities, New Coin and Kotaz, and will also be appearing in the next issue of Anemone Sidecar, a journal of poetry based in America.
Being flows in Malikhanye
Kyle Allen
2012-01-25
Malikhanye is Mxolisi Nyezwa’s third collection of poetry, continuing his trend of potent and highly lyrical poetry containing the reality of a landscape that is both political and personal, both painful and beautiful, in writing filled with intense and startlingly evocative imagery.
Big Book Chain Chat #83: Where does poetry begin?
Kyle Allen
2011-10-26
Poetry begins in silence and transcends ourselves. A poem is both a message and a destination. A poem is both a process and an entirety. We are channels and also embodiers of the poem. Where does the poem end and another existence begin?