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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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“As we settled into the Amazwi amphitheatre, the chatter from audience and performers filled the autumn air. Deep baritone hums wafted through the crowds, setting the stage for what was to come. A few moments later, MC Adam Levin welcomed the audience to the first poetry showcase hosted at Amazwi Museum in collaboration with the South African Poetry Projects (ZAPP), Poetry NonScenes, and the Rhodes University Department of Literary Studies in English. This showcase marked the end of a two-day poetry workshop aimed at encouraging young writers to tell their stories through their poetry.” Thank you to Mmathabo Maebela, Relebohile Mohapi and Thubelihle Mathonsi of Grocott’s Mail for this article, which you can read at our 🔗 in bio. #uHlanga #GrocottsMail #press #media #PoetryNonScenesPoems #Amazwi #SouthAfricanPublishing #poetry #poems
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uHlanga is proud to present ‘a corpse is also a garden’, the first English poetry collection by @pietermodendaal 🌸🌾 “Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal is one of the leading young Afrikaans poets of his generation. In this, a self-translated selection of poems from his first two collections, readers in English get to experience Odendaal’s stunningly confident and self-deconstructing work for the first time.” Odendaal’s understated, precise style exhibits a maturity beyond his years – whether he is reckoning with the hideous deeds of his ancestors, the tribulations of young love, or the various everyday beauties and horrors of modern South Africa. These are poems that affirm our deepest and most profound connections, both with each other and our environments – the places that birth us, and the earth to which we all return. 🌿🫛 Available in August, you can read more about ‘a corpse is also a garden’ now: https://uhlangapress.co.za/pieter-madibuseng-odendaal-a-corpse-is-also-a-garden #uHlanga #CorpsePoems #poet #poems #PieterMadibusengOdendaal
In 2014, uHlanga was born as a small poetry magazine from KwaZulu-Natal. There were too few places that celebrated South African poetry, especially that of writers just starting out. We began publishing books in 2015. Ten years later, we’ve pu
In 2014, uHlanga was born as a small poetry magazine from KwaZulu-Natal. There were too few places that celebrated South African poetry, especially that of writers just starting out. We began publishing books in 2015. Ten years later, we’ve published both debut writers and established voices. We’ve seen our books win national and international prizes, live on in syllabuses, and be pressed into the hands of new readers who whisper, “This one changed me.” We’ve spent a decade building a home for South African poetry that is bold, quiet, strange, familiar, brave and yes, beautiful. To everyone who has submitted, published, read, stocked, reviewed, taught, shared, or loved an uHlanga book — thank you. Here’s to ten years of poems. And to whatever comes next 📚 #uHlanga #TenYearsOfUhlanga #poetry #poemspoemspoems

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