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Nondwe Mpuma shortlisted for Best Poetry NIHSS Award

March 20, 2023

We’re happy to announce that Nondwe Mpuma’s debut collection Peach Country was shortlisted for the 2023 NIHSS Awards.

The book was shortlisted alongside books from Antjie Krog, Kelwyn Sole and Sarah Lubala – books from four different publishers; proof that poetry publishing in South Africa has been strong this past year!

Congratulations to Nondwe, as well as to Sarah Lubala, whose collection A History of Disappearance (published by Botsotso) took the winner’s prize.

← CJ 'Jonty' Driver, 1939–2023Jacques Coetzee wins 2022 Olive Schreiner Prize for Poetry →

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.

You can now also buy our books directly from us, delivered to your door, on Mzansi Books.

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


On social media

In Cape Town? Love poetry? ❤️

Then stop everything you're doing and RSVP to the launch of Sihle Ntuli's 'Owele'!

Sihle will be in conversation with Dr Wamuwi Mbao, and you can tell the lovely folk at The Book Lounge that you'll be attending by 🔗 e
In Cape Town? Love poetry? ❤️ Then stop everything you're doing and RSVP to the launch of Sihle Ntuli's 'Owele'! Sihle will be in conversation with Dr Wamuwi Mbao, and you can tell the lovely folk at The Book Lounge that you'll be attending by 🔗 emailing them at booklounge@gmail.com #uHlanga #SihleNtuli #TheBookLounge #OwelePoems
'I find the poems that take my breath away are the ones that display innovation, evidence that the poet is executing their art masterfully, poems that exist for the love of the medium." 🪴📚 

'The Dye Hard Interviews' recently published Gary Cu
'I find the poems that take my breath away are the ones that display innovation, evidence that the poet is executing their art masterfully, poems that exist for the love of the medium." 🪴📚 'The Dye Hard Interviews' recently published Gary Cummiskey's interview with our @mantipoetry i! Swipe for our favourite moments, and head to our link in bio for the full interview (and mentions of Manti’s fellow uHlanga poets, @maneomohale and @megan_ross_!). #uHlanga #RootboundPoems #ManthipeMoila #TheDyeHardInterviews #MilkFeverPoems #EverythingIsPoems #EverythingIsADeathlyFlower #poets #poet #interview
At this year’s Open Book Festival, uHlanga’s founder, Nick Mulgrew, sat down with @sindibusuku for an unflinching and lyrical conversation about Nick’s new book, ‘The Book of Unrest’, and our Edinburgh-based sister-press
At this year’s Open Book Festival, uHlanga’s founder, Nick Mulgrew, sat down with @sindibusuku for an unflinching and lyrical conversation about Nick’s new book, ‘The Book of Unrest’, and our Edinburgh-based sister-press, @batis.books. Their discussion traces the coastlines of memory and loss, ancestry and belonging; the same landscapes that haunt Mulgrew’s work with both beauty and unease. 🎧 Watch now via the link in our bio. @openbookfest #uHlanga #PagecastPodcast #OpenBookFestival #SouthAfricanBooks #BookInterviews #BookPodcast #NickMulgrew #SindiswaBusuku #obf2025

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