We leap on the flat dry grass.
One hundred lesbians? More.
Queer women everywhere.
It’s as queer as the eye can see.
The JRB presents poetry by Deborah Seddon, from Magnitude:
https://t.co/SHJMfZ3b9d
But the wind is not the weather.
Water flows, the bird has flown.
I am not a paltry griever
and my mother’s not a tomb.
The JRB presents poetry by Dawn Garisch, from The Consulting Room: https://t.co/DtGtKOJfnz
Although jail thickens the skin,
birthing its chitin fold
The beetle will teach you how to turn mud into gold
To unfold your hind wings for a smooth take-off.
The JRB presents previously unpublished poetry by Sandile Ngidi:
https://t.co/4STmV8if7I
The JRB presents ‘The Nazi Insurgence Reaches Blairgowrie’, an excerpt from Werner Pretorius’s debut collection of short fiction, Lone Wolf Living.
https://t.co/zPnZ3DM5pP
The JRB presents an excerpt from Robert Lowell’s Imitations and the Cold War: Containment, Leakage, Anarchy, the new book by our Academic Editor, Simon van Schalkwyk.
https://t.co/TtPlHlT180
From Douala to Yaounde, a philosophical journey—Sanya Osha encounters the contradictions fueling Cameroon’s fertile intellectual culture: https://t.co/PIPdtTRz1b
Happy #janeausten250 day! To celebrate, why not revisit Helen Moffett's 2020 novel Charlotte, which tells the story of Pride and Prejudice's Charlotte Lucas, who marries the unfortunate Mr Collins after Lizzy Bennet spurns him? Enjoy ⤵️
https://t.co/HgbiHa769Y
Muthi Nhlema and Ivor W Hartmann discuss trust, inspiration, writer’s block, and Nhlema’s latest work ‘Piss Corpse’, which was selected to be the debut story for ZamaShort, a new imprint specialising in publishing short stories by African authors.
https://t.co/HWujNhourm
‘Performing poetry is a naked affair, but I’d rather be naked than take up residence behind a mask.’
Khadija Tracey Heeger in conversation with Makhosazana Xaba:
https://t.co/SpRI5erSRh
Kevin Goddard reviews What is Owed? by Kelwyn Sole—a poet’s summing up of a life dedicated both to verse and to activism in South Africa.
https://t.co/XIkEcxJtVr
Sean Jacobs reviews Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani, a rich and textured account of Ugandan and postcolonial African politics, and a layered personal history.
https://t.co/xPGpGvC1qv
Barbara Boswell reviews Elleke Boehmer’s Ice Shock, a novel saturated with extremes of love and increasingly calamitous climate events.
https://t.co/aPe0DQTCoZ
The JRB Fiction Issue has arrived!
In this edition we celebrate short fiction, from the mysterious to the sublime, by way of the South African gothic (PLUS ALSO reviews, interviews, poetry, essays and all good things).
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The children have their spleens burst open.
The children’s skulls are cracked torn apart
bone blown open. The children have no eyes.
The children are torn apart small
torsos shorn...
New poetry by Rustum Kozain https://t.co/94lbOgB6UF via @joburgreview