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Jay Bernard
B. 1988
"One of our most promising young talents, Jay Bernard writes powerful and sensuous scenes from the metropolis: a teenager flies like a moth, a woman with scissors sings bees. Disturbing, joyous and always surprising.” – Pascale Petit.
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Makhosazana Xaba
B. 1957
These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts. Khosi Xaba, from 'These Hands'
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Moniza Alvi
B. 1954
'here I am, on the edge of animation, / a dream, a dance, a fantastic construction'. Moniza Alvi
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Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
B. 1966
Yaa de Villiers' silence-smashing poems (in this manner reminiscent of Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife) are sensitive, unafraid to be erotic, sometimes tragic, and always irreverent - Tolu Ogunlesi, Wasafiri magazine
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Kelwyn Sole
B. 1951
His keen observation invokes an expanded cognition and a braver engagement with one's personhood. -- Liesl Jobson