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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.

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

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We sat down to a wonderful interview with uHlanga poet, @heckitty, in a conversation that traversed love, 'Prunings', and the strange (and incredible!) places that poetry can take one 🍃 Swipe to read it now. #uHlanga #PruningsPoems #StrangeFruit
We sat down to a wonderful interview with uHlanga poet, @heckitty, in a conversation that traversed love, 'Prunings', and the strange (and incredible!) places that poetry can take one 🍃 Swipe to read it now. #uHlanga #PruningsPoems #StrangeFruit #HelenMoffett #interview #poetry #poet #uHlangaPoet
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Special alert! 🌺 @mantipoetry's 'Rootbound' is now ONLY R192 when you pre-order your copy from @booklounge 🌙 Special lasts until 30 May 2025. #uHlanga #TheBookLounge #ManthipeMoila #RootboundPoems
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 rememberin
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

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