South African poetry since 2014

Megan Ross & Francine Simon at Zeitz MOCAA

May 7, 2018

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.

Outside of South Africa, most of our books are available in print through the African Books Collective.

On social media

This Mother’s Day weekend, we celebrate more than just mothers: we honour the mother tongues that hold sacred our histories, our stories. At uHlanga, we believe mother tongues are not only a way of speaking — they are a way of remembering, resisting and reimagining. And so today, the start of Mother’s Day weekend, we pay tribute to the uHlanga poems and collections that have been written in isiXhosa and isiZulu. 🐚🦪🌊 Swipe for, from left, the covers of Mthunzikazi A. Mbungwana’s ‘Unam Wena’ and ‘Ilifa’ by Athambile Masola; plus Jijana’s ‘mabuya’mbo’ from ‘Failing Maths and My Other Crimes’ and ‘uBuhle bembongi zinkondlo zayo’ by Pearl S. Ndlovu. #uHlanga #MothersDay #MotherTongue #AfricanPoetry @nolali_wasecala @athambile_m @demazane_ntombazane

Poetry Non-Scenes is launching at the following times & venues in Johannesburg. Save this post now! 🕺🏾 #uHlanga #PoetryNonscenesPoems #poet #poems

“is the river an honest mirror of our nature? are still waters a reflection of us?” uHlanga is proud to present ‘Owele’, the third poetry collection by @sihlexntuli. A family of rivers flows through the land. Their waters gather, merge and split. But even twins must create their own paths – where do their individual journeys begin, and how far must they travel to their shared destination, the vast and turbulent ocean? In Owele, Sihle Ntuli meditates on the origins of his family, clan and language through the earthen-toned rivers of the Zulu world. 〰️ Read more now at our link in bio. 📸 Featuring photographs by @samora_chapman | Author 📸 by Centre for Stories (Australia) #uHlanga #OwelePoems #poet #poems #SihleNtuli #SamoraChapman