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uHlanga x David Krut Poetry Evenings #3: Shirmoney Rhode & Helen Moffett

October 17, 2016

Thursday 10 November 2016
David Krut Projects Cape Town
Montebello Design Centre, Newlands, Cape Town
1830–2000

uHlanga and David Krut Projects invite you to an evening of poetry and art in Newlands, featuring a reading from our latest published poet, Helen Moffett, and a very special guest, the performance poet Shirmoney Rhode.

David Krut Projects will be selling Helen's collection, 'Prunings', Shirmoney's collection, Nomme 20 Delphi Straat (published by Modjaji Books) well as other uHlanga collections.

Free entry and delicious sponsored wine from Zandvliet!

Our Facebook event is here.

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Helen Moffett was born in Pretoria in 1961. A poet, editor, feminist activist and academic, her publications include university textbooks, an anthology of landscape writings, a cricket book (with the late Bob Woolmer and Tim Noakes), and the Girl Walks In erotica series (with Sarah Lotz and Paige Nick under the nom de plume Helena S. Paige). Her first poetry collection, Strange Fruit, was published by our friends at Modjaji Books in 2009, and her latest release, Prunings, was published earlier this year by uHlanga. She lives in Noordhoek.

Shirmoney Rhode is a 25-year-old writer and performance poet who grew up on the Cape Flats in Elsies River. She predominantly writes in Kaapse Afrikaans, which is the dialect of Afrikaans spoken in the Western Cape. An alumnus of the University of the Western Cape, she is currently teaching Afrikaans at Claremont High School in Cape Town.

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About uHlanga

uHlanga is a small South African poetry press run by Nick Mulgrew.

Our books are available to order from all retail bookstores in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. Our distributors are Protea Distribution in Cape Town and can be reached at +2721 001 7618.

Outside of South Africa, many of our books are available print-on-demand through the African Books Collective.


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