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Stormy weather
2013-08-27"The collecting of clouds, gathering grey matter
behind the blue gum trees
magnifying the bird calls
the rising humidity"
Through a haze of menthol
2013-08-27 "Through a haze of menthol-infusedCigarette smoke
I see his head bobbing back and forth
With the basic rhythms
Of the music in his mind"
Sol Plaatje European Union Award Poetry Award 2013
2013-08-27 Entries for the third Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award for poetry in all 11 South African languages have reopened! Winning poems will form part of a poetry anthology that honours the spirit of Sol Plaatje, the activist, linguist and translator, novelist, journalist and leader. The deadline for submissions is now Monday 9 September 2013.
African Library: The Forbidden Woman
2013-08-27 "Indeed, the entire text could be read as exhortation and inspiration; the contribution of an Algerian woman who left her country physically, but remains passionately committed to her country and to those of her compatriots who share her passion for freedom."
Invitation: The launch of Call it Dog by Marli Roode.
2013-08-27 Penguin Books and Love Books take pleasure in inviting you to the launch of Call it Dog by Marli Roode.
Popping the Potchefstroom bubble
2013-08-27 "Next time you’re driving into Potchefstroom, you may hear a plop sound. Don’t worry, none of your tyres has burst. You’re just entering the Puk (Potchefstroom University) bubble. You’re perfectly safe from the outside world. In fact, there is no need to stress too much about anything that extends further than the Mooi River from now on."
Top English productions at Clover Aardklop National Arts Festival
2013-08-23 The English productions on offer at this year’s Clover Aardklop National Arts Festival, held in Potchefstroom, are all highly-acclaimed and award-winning shows.
Stellenbosch University: Postgraduate programmes in Translation
2013-08-19 Read more about the Postgraduate Diploma in Translation, the Honours Programme in Translation, as well as the MA and PhD Programmes in Translation at the US.
Helping translators change the world
2013-08-19 "The starting point of a good translation is to get at the meaning of the original. How does one do that?"
Sefika Awards dinner: Photos of the event
2013-08-16 At the annual Sefika Awards dinner, which was held recently, outstanding service to the publishing and bookselling industry was celebrated. Izak de Vries took photos at the event.
Lady Limbo by Consuelo Roland: A subversive, subverting love story
2013-08-15 "Playing with the tropes of erotic fiction, Roland gives us the striptease and the sex ..."
Cape Town launch: In Love's Place by Etienne van Heerden
2013-08-13 Penguin Books and The Book Lounge take pleasure in inviting you to the Cape Town launch of In Love's Place by Etienne van Heerden.
Expression is Golden
2013-08-13 "InZync poetry sessions are a surprisingly humble space where bras and sisters come together in an intimate cipher, where rappers informally freestyle over self-created beats, a pre-game warm-up rolling together blades of spiritual enlightenment, avoiding the blue lights of the five o’s and sharing a moment while spitting lyrical lines."
Cool stuff: August 2013
2013-08-12 Réney Warrington shares her highlights on the August events calendar.
About Beauty: A love letter
2013-08-12 "This is a love letter to some of the most remarkable full stops in the world, and to their friends. It could also have been an essay about beauty, but I’d rather treat it as the former."
A painting grows on your wall
2013-08-06 "How back to back we stood, and tall we stood?How we then read in books the lives we took.
Now a painting grows on you wall"
Early evening
2013-08-06 "Early evening and the great, glowing globeIs half hidden beneath the horizon.
No orange array salutes its passing,
Only the quiet coo of pigeons
And the slow pitter-patter
Of garden irrigation."
lKh? da !hoa 2013: Press release
2013-08-06 "By means of the first Namibian Word Festival, the lKh? da !hoa, I want the public to acknowledge and give hope to the people in our country who create art even if they are poor and not always in a position to have the luxury of studying."
The spokespeople that won’t speak
2013-08-05 Why is the beautiful but earwormish “Adiemus” one of the theme tunes to a Johannesburg journalist’s life? It is provincial government’s ”hold” tone.