Life under lockdown has been a dramatic event. The fourth annual
AVBOB Poetry Competition coincided with the first year of the
COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Yet the competition attracted a record
number of entries. An excess of 41 000 poems were entered by
writers between 7 and 98 years of age.
Six specially commissioned poems by established poets in each
official language (66 poems with English translations) appear in
this volume, as well as the three winning poems in each of South
Africa’s 11 official languages (33 poems with English translations).
To round out the collection, those 99 poems are completed by
4 contemporary Khoikhoi poems.
As voices from the past reach into the present, so the voices in this
anthology will stretch into the future, when they will be read as a
reflection of this terribly interesting time.
These words of beauty and balm by some of South Africa’s finest
poets will offer readers a definite taste from diverse voices. The
poems on these pages will comfort and console the bereft. Immerse
yourself and be inspired, as these flights of imagination uplift your
spirit.
SOFT COVER
Johann de Lange & Rethabile Possa-Mogoera
210 mm x 148 mm / A5
360 pages
ISBN: 9781928530541
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