New writing
Fiction and prose by established and emerging authors. Send your poetry or fiction to New Writing at skryfwerk@litnet.co.za to be considered for publication on LitNet.
Please note that work previously published in print or on any online media platform will not be considered for selection.
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."
The fair
2013-07-31"South Africa’s favourite fairground attraction
Is ninety-five years old
Today."
Test match (Some sessions)
2013-07-31"Leave the referral
Bowler’s got him plumb within a plum
Watchman to the stumps"
Interpreting Nuremberg
2013-07-24 "In my life I craved the words Richard saidto Jewish parents English meant safety
In his time he had Höss plead to the dead"
3 Poems
2013-07-15"It’s because emotion forbids music that silence holds grace
with no background din to ease or disturb the radar of bats"
Night swimming
2013-06-25 Your dreams are shipwreckedpaint-washed, bleached
tossed
boxed in the sea, floating unidentified.
The last romantic
2013-06-11 Dick Romeo Matshaba writes of a man who falls in love on the streets of Pretoria's Arcadia.Fences
2013-05-20 "A border becomes a gatewaythey stamp over the barbed wire, fearless,
moving into a softer place"
Age of Blossom
2013-05-14 The acclaimed South African poet Isobel Dixon sent LitNet two of her latest poems, never published before. These poems form part of a collaboration with Scottish artist Douglas Robertson in which they respond in different poetic and artistic ways to DH Lawrence's Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923).Acacia Karroo
2013-05-14 The acclaimed South African poet, Isobel Dixon, sent LitNet two of her latest poems, never published before. These two poems form part of a collaboration with Scottish artist Douglas Robertson in which they respond in different poetic and artistic ways to D H Lawrence's Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923).Bridging gaps with words
2013-05-14 Acclaimed South African poet and literary agent Isobel Dixon works in London, but is currently visiting South Africa for the Franschhoek Literary Festival. Rentia Bartlett-Möhl spoke to her about travelling, displacement, bridging continents and collaboration.Like tongues of flame and Flamingo clouds
2013-05-08Ros Wagener writes two effortless poems with attention to sound about a poinsettia, two birds and rosy clouds.
Western political ideologies
2013-04-30Mark Whelan writes a poem in memory of Freedom Day, April 27, 2013
Black Bird
2013-04-23"When you said that word – it was the way you said it –
rage soared, spread its wings
covered me"
the cliff
2013-04-15A simple strong poem about a man standing on a cliff, written by a new poet on LitNet.
Fiksie-kompetisie: Reisende skrywers
2013-04-10Aandag alle reisende skrywers! Neem deel aan LitNet se nuwe fiksie-kompetisie.
the cliff
2013-04-09A simple strong poem about a man standing on a cliff, written by a new poet on LitNet.