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Uit die argief: 5 gedigte deur Andries Bezuidenhout

Andries Bezuidenhout 2012-09-06 Lees 5 gedigte deur Andries Bezuidenhout uit LitNet se argief.

No haikus

Gail Dendy 2012-09-06 Gail Dendy pleads you to abstain ... from writing haikus!

Hockney

Loftus Marais 2012-09-05 Loftus Marais is vir eers klaar met Kaapstad en skryf in hierdie splinternuwe vers oor David Hockney se swembadskilderye.

blinde klara viljee

Adriaan Coetzee 2012-09-05 Wat sien ’n blinde Klara Viljee in haar geestesoog? Adriaan Coetzee se jongste gedig wil hom verbeel hy weet.

Reader's review: Impressions of Adventures of a Waterboy

Nadia de Kock 2012-09-05 "Scott is an accomplished musician and lyricist, as well as an entertaining writer. His writing is engaging and vivid (give or take a cliché or two) and he has a knack for characterisation that would probably make him the envy of seasoned novelists."

Aan die Kaap geskryf

Bibi Slippers 2012-09-02 "Daar is ’n tyd om te kom en ’n tyd om te gaan, sê die Prediker (of een of ander ánder digterlike skrywer van die Bybel), en die tyd het gekom vir my om terug te gaan stad toe."

die myner wat doodgeskiet is deur poliesmanne

Jaco Barnard-Naudé 2012-08-31 "die myner is nie dood nie.

die myner lig sy kapmes teen die siek kaptein
wat kapitalisme skreeu skreeu die stank van gebrek
aan 'n rand in die plakkerskamp afgesper van die heer se genade. ... "

Marikana

Heidi Henning 2012-08-31 "This stretch of land
has known battles
long into the backlog of time"

Hoe lyk jou stad-kompetisie: Wenner aangekondig

Jo Prins 2012-08-30 Jo Prins kondig die wenner van die "Hoe lyk jou stad?"-poësiekompetisie aan.

Author of The Book of War, James Whyle, in conversation with Janet van Eeden

Janet van Eeden 2012-08-30 "Whyle’s marriage of history with fine craftsmanship has shot him straight to the forefront of our writing community. His style is inimitable, his ways with language poetic, and he can hold his own against the few literary giants who have emerged from this continent."

African Library: The Great Agony and Pure Laughter of the Gods

Annie Gagiano 2012-08-30 "Safari’s text is harrowing to read for most of its length, but is a rich work in the breadth of its reach, though so unassumingly presented."

Fotoblad: Bloemfonteinse Skrywersvereniging

Corlietha Swart 2012-08-29 Die Bloemfonteinse Skrywersvereniging (BSV) het op sy jaarlikse nasionale Slypskool vir Ontluikende Skrywers die wenners van die landswye BSV-Skryfwedstryd vereer. Hier is foto’s van die geleentheid.

In Imbewu we Trust: an interview

Sam de Romijn, Naomi Meyer 2012-08-29 On Thursday the 31st of August 2012, the launch of the Imbewu Trust takes place in Cape Town. Sam de Romijn, co-founder, gives Naomi Meyer some background on the Trust.

Hoe lyk jou stad-kompetisie: Finaliste

2012-08-24 Hier is die finaliste van die Hoe lyk jou stad-poësiekompetisie. Watter een is jou gunsteling?

Poison Karoo

Etienne van Heerden, Isobel Dixon 2012-08-23 Poison Karoo was written out of concern and dismay at the proposals for hydraulic fracking in the Karoo. It is a work of fiction, written as if commercial hydraulic fracking has already begun in the Karoo.

William Gumede's Restless Nation launch at Taj Cape Town

2012-08-21 Join renowned political commentator William Gumede at the launch of his latest book, Restless Nation: Making sense of troubled times.

Darryl David on the third Midlands Literary Festival

Darryl David, Naomi Meyer 2012-08-20 Founder and director of the Midlands Literary Festival, Darryl David, talks to Naomi Meyer about this exciting event, now in its third year.

Clinton V du Plessis launches Flitse at Karoo Writers Festival

Menán van Heerden 2012-08-16 The poetry launch of Flitse by Clinton V du Plessis took place at the third Karoo Writers Festival in Cradock, in the gardens of Albert House.

From "whydunnit" to "whodunnit" – Michiel Heyns on his novel Lost Ground

Michiel Heyns, Naomi Meyer 2012-08-07 Michiel Heyns, well-known translator and English professor, recently won two prizes for his novel Lost Ground. The book is packaged as a crime novel, but readers of more serious novels will be pleasantly surprised by the story, if not completely blown away. Naomi Meyer asked Heyns about this memorable book.

Schreiner Karoo Writers Festival: "Every year the festival attendees double"

Henry Cloete, Bibi Slippers 2012-08-07 "It seems fitting that the festival is held on and around Women’s Day, as we’d like to celebrate the tenacity of women, and people in general, who have succeeded, despite their upbringing."
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