Pan-African feminist publisher based in South Africa
Mupotsa’s feeling and ugly presents femininity as a complex framework for thinking about how private life intersects with politics. It shows how through poetry, something as ubiquitous as feeling becomes a powerful means of conveying as much as transcending the ugly side of life. (Ainehi Edoro)
Source: The Johannesburg Review of Books
In Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation, more than 50 years of protest poetry are gathered in a single volume, bringing together some of the most remarkable and thought-provoking poems that have emerged from struggle.
Read more: TimesLive https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/books/fiction/2021-03-15-50-years-of-powerful-protest-poetry/
New poetry anthology remembers the past and dreams the future through voices of young poets
11 March 2021 – 14:10
By Christine Skinner
‘Yesterdays and Imagining Realities’ features work from 26 young local poets.
A new anthology of poetry honours stories from the past and projects hopes for the future through the eyes and voices of 26 young SA poets.
Yesterdays and Imagining Realities: An Anthology of South African Poetry is produced through the continued poetry partnership between the French Institute of SA (IFAS) and impepho press with the support of Total SA.
Go to impepho press’ page for Yesterdays and Imagining Realities:
An Anthology of South African Poetry
This past week the #YouthCan book by Lizz Ntonjira was launched
Busisiwe Mahlangu is happy to feature in this collection and was honoured to be in the panel for the launch.
You can get your copy here (worldwide shipping): https://youthcan.africa/
#YouthCan #BookLaunch
