The dry and the wet burn together www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Tonight in BBC Radio 4’s Illuminated, the poet Jack Underwood offers his services as a metaphor consultant, for a very reasonable fee. Listen to The Metaphor Consultant in the Illuminated podcast Produced by Eleanor McDowall www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

In Time, Paper, Bone @bonganikona.bsky.social presented an intimate portrait of one woman’s quest for closure and South Africa’s long reckoning with the injustices of the past. The result of years of work by producers @catherineboulle.bsky.social & Bongani Kona www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

DIPALO: a mixtape for those who practice counting www.mixcloud.com/chimurenga/n...

Yonela Mnana, 'Baba' ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-PT...

Please join us this Thursday at 17.00 SAST for the last event in our ‘Writing in Troubled Times’ series. We will be in conversation with Tetyana Teren about Victoria Amelina’s posthumously published work, Looking at Women Looking at War. As always, RSVP at [email protected] for the Zoom link.

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Please join us this Thursday at 17:00 SAST for the penultimate instalment of our ‘Writing in Troubled Times’ series. This week we’ll be engaging with several contributors to Literary Sudans, an anthology edited by Bhakti Shringarpure. As always, RSVP for the Zoom link at [email protected]

Please join us this coming Thursday at 17:00 SAST for our next instalment of our ‘Writing in Troubled Times’ series. Contributors to the anthology Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War - edited by Bhakti Shringarpure - will be reading their work. RSVP for the Zoom link at [email protected]

The Jakes Gerwel Foundation presents the Brussels tot Karoo residency for Flemish and South African writers. The goal is to grant writers 3 weeks of uninterrupted time to work on a manuscript - in any genre. Please email [email protected] for more information, or apply at the link shown in the poster.

youtu.be/RXXTXQwMdew Click the link to watch the preview of The Art of Exile, which we are screening at Bertha House this coming Wednesday at 17.00. As always, please RSVP at [email protected] to secure your place. Entrance is free!

Please join us virtually this Thursday for a conversation with Athol Williams! RSVP at [email protected] for the Zoom link.

From under the Dining Table: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Please join us this coming Tuesday at 17:00 SAST for the second instalment of our Writing in Troubled Times series! C.A. Davids will be in conversation with Nathi Ngubane ahout his educational colouring books, From the River to the Sea and Malcolm X in Gaza. RSVP: [email protected]

Some stories take a long, long time - to unfold, to be told, and to find a home. This was one of them.  Time, Paper, Bone, made with the brilliant @bonganikona.bsky.social, is now out in its full and final form, on BBC Radio 4 💫 🎧 Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g2nf

Based on four years of fieldwork by collaborators @bonganikona.bsky.social and @catherineboulle.bsky.social, ‘Time, Paper, Bone’ is an intimate portrait of one woman’s lifelong quest for closure, and South Africa’s long reckoning with the injustices of the past. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

My dear friend, Catherine Boulle, and I have travelled a long journey with this piece and we are glad that it’s finally out in the world. Please feel free to give it a listen here: ❤️

An incredible piece ❤️https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0028301

'Disturbing the Archive': An awesome conversation between Rémy Ngamije and Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu doeklitmag.com/disturbing-t...

Blk Jks, 'Harare' www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrYd...

Kujenga, 'Remembrance' www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx3w...

Witnessing this was a transcendental experience: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM31...

Kyle Shepherd Trio, 'Teardrop' www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpQ1...

John Murillo Reads "Practicing Fade-Aways" in "Up Jump the Boogie" (Cypher Books, 2010) ❤️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNbfI9LBfE0