Podcasts about poetry africa

Sara-Jayne Makwala King speaks to the 28th Poetry Africa festival Slam Champion, Olive Olusegun.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bongani Bingwa speaks with Quaz Roodt, Curators & Poet, about the much-anticipated and beloved yearly celebration of all things poetry, which will take place from October 3rd to 12th, 2024.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Abongile Nzelenzele chats to Poetry Africa Festival Curator, Siphindile Hlongwa about the event which brings together poets from 21 countries.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thursday, 17 February 2022, 1 – 2pm An online roundtable discussion with Neo Gilson, Jamalida Rafique, and Thirukumaran Thiruchelvan (Thiru), three of the poets who took part in our ‘Window to My World' series for World Poetry Day 2021, showcasing poetry from refugees, asylum seekers, and exiled poets in Ireland. The discussion will be chaired by Professor Philip Coleman, School of English, TCD, and is organised by Dr Jude Lal Fernando, Director of Trinity Centre for Post-Conflict Justice, in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. About the poets About the poets Neo Gilson Neo was born in Kimberley South Africa, and currently lives in Ireland as an immigrant. She is a poet, singer, writer, story- teller, and motivational speaker. She released a gospel audio CD titled "Behind The Veil" in May 2013, which has received airplay on various radio shows in South Africa. She is a member of Poetry Africa and Samro in South Africa, a member of Women In Library in Glasgow, and a member of WOW in Ireland. In 2020, Neo wrote a poem for the Love and Charity production in Ireland titled ‘Women on Women'. She is passionate about women empowerment projects and loves to contribute to society in a meaningful way. Neo has also been part of the Breast Cancer Awareness campaign. Jamalida Rafique Jamalida was born in Kutupalong Refugee Camp, Bangladesh, in 2008. She was resettled along with her parents in Ireland at the age of just eight months. She is in her second year of secondary school at St. Leo's College, Carlow. She has visited the refugee camp where she was born and witnessed how hundreds of thousands of Rohingya children fled to Bangladesh during the mass exodus in 2017. Jamalida has met and sent a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees on the importance of education for Rohingya children. She continues to speak on behalf of those refugee children who have been denied their right to education. Thirukumaran Thiruchelvan (Thiru) Thiru is an Eelam Tamil poet, lyricist, writer, journalist, environmentalist, and author of four anthologies of poems. He was a victim of torture by the Sri Lankan security forces during the last phase of the war in that country. He was in direct provision in Ireland for four years and was granted refugee status in 2014 and now is an Irish citizen. Thiru, who is a graduate of Jaffna University in Sri Lanka, has had his poetry included in the syllabi of postgraduate programmes on Tamil literature in three universities in the southern states of India. His poems have been translated into English, German, Irish and Sinhala. His poetry books were launched and featured in Literature and/or Book Festivals in many countries around the world, including India, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, and Canada.

This week on The Cultural Frontline, Tumi Morake looks at writing from her country, South Africa – focussing on fiction, poetry, and language reflecting the country's history, politics, social make-up, and identity. Multi-award-winning author Damon Galgut's latest novel, The Promise, is his third to be nominated for the Booker Prize, and is in the final running. Set during South Africa's transition from apartheid, it explores its legacy through the decline of a white farming family, whose promise to their black maid - to give her the house she lives in - remains unfulfilled, as we follow them from the height of apartheid to the present day. Lebo Mashile is an acclaimed poet, actress and writer. It's been a tough year in South Africa – with the pandemic, political scandal, and violent civil unrest – but Lebo uses her poetry to try to make sense of what's happening in the world. She's been performing at the recent Poetry Africa international festival at the University of KwaZulu Natal, and spoke to reporter Mpho Lakaje about tackling big issues in her work. Plus, how a new dictionary - with the help of hip hop - can overcome inequality. The South African Kaaps language is commonly used by working class people, however speakers can be negatively stereotyped and suffer discrimination. Now a new Dictionary of Kaaps - in Kaaps, English, and Afrikaans - is being launched by the University of the Western Cape and a hip hop charity, Heal The Hood. Shaquile Southgate of the charity explains the difference he hopes the dictionary will make. And South African actor, activist, and playwright Dr John Kani. In spring 2020 he was in London performing in his new play, Kunene And The King, when the pandemic sadly brought it to a close. He speaks about the art that lifted his spirits in lockdown, and his love for the jazz of Hugh Masekela. Presented by Tumi Morake Produced by Emma Wallace, Mpho Lakaje, Mugabi Turya and Jack Thomason (Photo: Damon Galgut)

Mitch Harper is straight-up one of the most interesting people I know. He's a multifaceted dude who has had a big impact behind the scenes in Durban. You might know him as the vocalist for hardcore band Life Below, or you might have known him when he was a journalist for IOL, but the work that Mitch made the most impact with was helping put together the Durban International Film Festival, Poetry Africa, Jomba and Time of the Writer with the Center for Creative Arts. He's currently freelancing and has found himself working on film festivals around the country, which gives him a unique perspective on the South African film scene. Few people have spent as much time behind the scenes of SA film festivals as Mitch has over the last few years. That being said, we spent most of this podcast talking about punching Nazis, the early days of Durban HxC, and Sunday nights at Joe Kools. https://almostperfect.co.za/ep-13-mitch-harper/

East Coast Radio — Poet, writer, performer, actress, producer and an inspiration to many.: Lebo Mashile joined Damon Beard on East Coast Radio to chat about her incredible works with poetry. Lebo Mashile is one of a stronghold of artists who will be showcasing at the Poetry Africa festival in Durban.

Susan Stenson's work has appeared in several literary magazines, most recently, Fiddlehead, Geist, CV2 and sub-TERRAIN and anthologies including Threshold: six women six poets, Vintage '99 and 2000, and No Choice But to Trust. In 2004, she won first prize in the ARC Poem of the Year Contest, Lush Triumphant, sub-TERRAIN Magazine's Annual Writing Contest and the Rona Murray Prize for Poetry, sponsored by the Victoria Arts Council. She also won first prize in the Great Canadian Literary Hunt, This Magazine's Poetry Contest 2000, the League of Canadian Poets National Contest in 1999 and the Hawthorne Chapbook Award in 1997 for her manuscript, A Little Less Swing, A Little More Sway. Her poems have been short listed several times for the CBC literary prize and are also featured on buses throughout British Columbia in the Poetry in Transit program. As a participant in the national literacy Random Acts of Poetry Weeks, 2004 and 2006, Susan has read poems to politicians, police officers, principals and pupils. Her work has also been commissioned for CBC radio's Out Front Program. Sono Nis Press published her first book of poems, Could Love a Man, spring 2001, to rave reviews in several magazines including Arc, Malahat Review, Boulevard, Monday, and Prairie Fire. She lives ecstatically in Victoria with her family where she co-publishes The Claremont Review, a literary magazine for writers aged 13 to 19 which was Write Magazine's choice for magazine of the year, 2001. Susan teaches English and creative writing to high school students in Saanich School District, has taught at Kamhlaba United World College in Mbabane, Swaziland and for The Victoria School of Writing. She is a regular on the roster of literary festivals, most recently for Poetry Africa in Durban, South Africa, Words Aloud 3, in Durham, Ontario, and for Forest Fest, in Port Alberi, British Columbia. http://bodytalkvictoria.com/susan-stenson/

Den palestinska författaren Susan Abulhawa fick ett stort genombrott med romanen "Morgon i Jenin". Nu är hon tillbaka med en ny bok, och Marie Lundström hälsar på henne hemma i Philadelphia. - Jag heter Riad. 1980 var jag två år gammal, och ett alldeles perfekt barn. Långt blont hår, tjockt och blankt, väluppfostrad och känslig, storögd och nervös blick.Så börjar Riad Sattoufs självbiografiska serieroman Framtidens arab, som blivit en internationell braksuccé. Vår reporter Anna Tullberg har träffat honom i Paris.Rasism, migration, hjärta & smärta, kärleken till sin egen kropp - allt ryms och allt blir till dikt på poesifestivalen Poetry Africa i Durban. Vår kulturkorrespondent Lisa Bergström målar en bild av festivalen, och lyfter fram poeten Nii Parks.Den nyzeeländska författaren Janet Frame är älskad av många. Hennes självbiografi En ängel vid mitt bord blev också film. Nu kommer ett urval av hennes dikter på svenska, Hungrig bland orden heter boken. Vi läser tre dikter tillsammans med författaren och översättaren John Swedenmark.

Kobus Moolman was born in 1964 in Pietermaritzburg. He is a senior lecturer in creative writing in the Department of English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. He holds a PhD in English Studies from UKZN. In 2013 he received the 2013 Sol Plaatje European Union poetry award. In the same year, he was the Mellon Writer in Residence at Rhodes University for three months, and he also published his most recent poetry anthology, Left Over (Dye Hard Press). The collection has been widely acknowledged as his strongest to date. In 2012 he was commissioned by the Performing Arts Centre of the Free State to adapt  Zakes Mda’s the novel, The Madonna of Excelsior, for the stage. The production has travelled to several theatres in the country, including the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown and the State Theatre in Pretoria. In 2010 he published Light and After (Deep South Press). The collection was launched at the 14th Poetry Africa festival in Durban. In the same year he received the South African Literary Award for Poetry for his collection, Separating the Seas. Founded by the national Ministry of Arts & Culture, the South African Literary Awards honour South African literary practitioners, while encouraging the advancement of literary heritage and practice. In 2010 he was a special guest, for two months, of the Creative Writing Research Group of the University of Calgary in Canada. During this period he gave readings of his work and lectured, including at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He was also an invited guest at the 2010 Calgary International Spoken Word Festival, during which time he performed at the Banff Centre for the Arts and in Canmore. In the same year he edited and published, Tilling the Hard Soil: poetry, prose and art by   South African Writers with Disabilities (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press). He was also the invited dramaturge on a two-week residency for South African and Dutch scriptwriters organized by the Twist Theatre Development Project during the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. He was invited back as dramaturge in 2011 and 2013. In 2009 one of poems was nominated for a US Pushcart Prize. At the beginning of 2008, he participated in a three-week collaborative residency at the Caversham Centre for Writers and Artists in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. During this residency he produced a limited edition, hand-bound collection of poems entitled Anatomy. This cycle of poems was later published in the Journal of Disability Studies (OhioStateUniversity). It also won the Dramatic and Literary Rights (DALRO) Prize for the best poem to appear in New Coin magazine in 2008. A collection of his radio plays, Blind Voices, was published by Botsotso Publishers in 2007. The collection is sponsored by the British Council and features a CD of the BBC production of his earlier award-winning play, Soldier Boy. In 2008,  he was on the panel of adjudicators for the Ingrid Jonker award, and in 2009 he was a judge for the Thomas Pringle Award for Poetry.He was the founding editor of the annual KwaZulu-Natal poetry journal, Fidelities, which ran from 1995 until 2007.  As co-ordinator of the Fidelities Poetry Project he conducted creative writing workshops and readings for a variety of interest groups, from offenders in prison to high school youth.  From 2000 to 2009 he edited the poetry titles for the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, working on collections by Karen Press, Mxolisi Nyezwa, Kelwyn Sole and Makhosazana Xaba, amongst others. In 2007 he was also named joint winner of the 2007 NLDTF/PANSA Festival of Contemporary Theatre Readings of New Writing for his new play, Stone Angel. This is the second time he has won this major South African award for theatre writing. In the same year he was the chairperson of the selection committee for the Olive Schreiner Poetry Prize sponsored by the English Academy of Southern Africa. In 2004 his play, Full Circle,