South African poetry since 2014

PUBLICATIONS

LATEST RELEASES

Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal, a corpse is also a garden (August 2025)

Sihle Ntuli, Owele (July 2025)

Manthipe Moila, Rootbound (June 2025)

SINGLE-AUTHOR BOOKS, A–Z

P.R. Anderson, Foundling’s Island (2018)

P.R. Anderson, In A Free State (2018)

Saaleha Idrees Bamjee, Zikr (2018)
WINNER: Ingrid Jonker Prize, 2020

Jacques Coetzee, An Illuminated Darkness (2020)
WINNER: Ingrid Jonker Prize, 2022; Olive Schreiner Prize, 2022

C.J. Driver, Still Further: New Poems 2000–2020 — C. J. Driver, Still Further: New Poems 2000–2020 (2020)

C. J. Driver, Dayspring: A Memoir (ed. J. M. Coetzee) (2024)
A New Statesman Book of the Year

Genna Gardini, Matric Rage (2016)

Musawenkosi Khanyile, All the Places (2019)
WINNER: South African Literary Award for Poetry, 2020; NIHSS Award for Best Poetry, 2021

Rosa Lyster, Modern Rasputin (2016)

Kopano Maroga, Jesus Thesis and Other Critical Fabulations — Kopano Maroga, Jesus Thesis and Other Critical Fabulations (2020)

Athambile Masola, Ilifa — Athambile Masola, Ilifa (2021)
WINNER: NIHSS Award for Best Poetry, 2022

Mthunzikazi A. Mbungwana, Unam Wena — Mthunzikazi A. Mbungwana,
Unam Wena (2021)

Helen Moffett, Prunings (2016)
WINNER: South African Literary Award for Poetry, 2017

Maneo Mohale, Everything Is A Deathly Flower (2019)
WINNER: Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, 2020

Kobus Moolman, Fall Risk (2024)

Nondwe Mpuma, Peach Country (2022)

Nick Mulgrew, The Book of Unrest (2022)

Megan Ross, Milk Fever (2018)

Francine Simon, Thungachi (2017)

Douglas Reid Skinner, Liminal (2017)

Douglas Reid Skinner, A Short Treatise on Mortality (2022)

ANTHOLOGIES

Poetry NonScenes (2024)

Sono Molefe (ed.), Malibongwe: Poems from the Struggle by ANC Women — Sono Molefe (ed.), Malibongwe: Poems from the Struggle by ANC Women (2020)

Kobus Moolman (ed.), Cutting Carrots the Wrong Way — Kobus Moolman (ed.), Cutting Carrots the Wrong Way (2017)

CYPHER, Imbewu Yesini (2016)

COLLABORATIONS

uHlanga sometimes collaborates with other presses to market and distribute their books in South Africa.

Adré Marshall, Visitations (2024)
Published by Crane River

Catullus: Selected Lyric Poems, translated by Richard Whitaker and Douglas Reid SkinnerPublished by Crane River — Catullus, Selected Lyric Poems, trans. Richard Whitaker and Douglas Reid Skinner (2020)
Published by Crane River

Tony Voss, The Mushroom Summer of Skipper Darling (2019)
Published by Crane River

Stuart Payne, Voices From Another Room (2018)
Published by Crane River

OUT OF PRINT & PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED TITLES

Stephen Symons, Questions for the Sea (2016)
Thabo Jijana, Failing Maths and My Other Crimes (2015)
Nick Mulgrew, the myth of this is that we're all in this together (2015)
uHlanga magazine, Issue 1 (2014)
Roz Kaveney, Dialectic of the Flesh (2012)

Sihle Ntuli, Rumblin’ (2020)
Kobus Moolman with Shubnum Khan, All and Everything (2019)
Francine Simon, Shark (2019)
H.I.E. Dhlomo, Valley of a Thousand Hills (2019)
Athena Farrokzhad, White Blight (trans. Jennifer Hayashida) (2018)
Koleka Putuma, Collective Amnesia (2017)