THE ARROWS OF FATE Every Thursday for the past five weeks, I have travelled the M5 from Cape Town to … Read More

I heard tell of a man who was wrongly accused of murder and spent forty-three years in solitary confinement, in … Read More

Sometimes a person enters your life and you instantly have the sense of ‘Friend’. Many years may go by, in … Read More

I went seeking art while confined during the Corona Lockdown. This was found at various times of each day, looking … Read More

Now the planet rests. For the first time since industrialisation, we have ceased to overpower the sounds of the natural … Read More

Yesterday, on Easter Sunday, the Italian tenor, Andrea Bocelli gifted the world with a concert that was streamed live on … Read More

Now we enter a 21-day period of seclusion.It is an essential seclusion, ordained by government in the face of pestilence.Yet … Read More

I have long considered that we are already within an ecological apocalypse— it is not something coming— it’s here. The … Read More

November holds the anniversary of the 1918 Armistice, signed at Le Francport, “at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day … Read More

I spend my professional life as a novelist and as a curator of anthologies. So I work, on the one … Read More

Denis Goldberg, aged 86, is one of two Rivonia Trialists still alive. The second is Andrew Mlangeni. They were sentenced … Read More

It was with great pleasure that I gave a second reading of my Poetry in McGregor presentation KNOCKING AT THE … Read More

The seventh Poetry in McGregor Festival was celebrated this past weekend 23-25 August at Temenos Retreat. The Festival is anchored … Read More

I had the privilege of being invited to read poems at the recent Montagu Boekefees. There, I presented poems of … Read More

I often imagine everyday life to be theatre in which we take up roles, costuming ourselves and acting out as … Read More

If I were asked, in my role as a curator of poetry anthologies, “Whose company do you keep in your … Read More

The Burundian artist, Serge Alain Nitegeka, has created a powerful installation at The Norval Art Museum in Cape Town called … Read More

Wednesday is garbage collection day in our area. Over the years, I have befriended many people who go through the … Read More

My time as Poet in Residence at David Krut Projects comes to an end with the closing of their Cape … Read More

Sunday 11 November 2018, was the centenary of the Armistice which marked the end of World War 1 at the … Read More

The South African figurative artist, Nicola Holgate, recently exhibited her Dolls’ House at Chandler House in Cape Town. It took … Read More

I like to read poems where others pray and where the “matter” of Soul builds up and becomes tangible. This … Read More

The spiritual home of poetry in South Africa is, without doubt, Temenos in the village of McGregor, where the annual … Read More

    Waiting my turn in a queue, I read to myself from the proof copy of Absolute Africa! the … Read More

Testamento, a poem by Alda Lara, is about Deep-Giving. By Deep-Giving, I mean the giving, not of accumulated material possessions … Read More