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I'd like those likely to attend readings I'll do in Lesotho to know that I have few books with me. Failed delivery. Please pass the word, and this link to my Amazon page , should anyone want to get a book and have me sign it. I would also like to take this opportunity to officially announce (and this will be done in Maseru as well, live) the publication of my fourth book of poems, "Qoaling". It was published on 17 February 2018, which is my mother's birthday, by the Oxford-based The Onslaught Press. Needless to say, I'm quite excited as I ponder future readings in Europe as well as on the African continent. During this trip I will unfortunately not be able to stopover in Johannesburg. I know quite a few people there who are itching to kill me as they read this. Next time I will have to stop in Jozi for sure, and stay there for a few days. In Lesotho I look forward to reading at Rockview and in Morija (The Hub). I still don't know the dates yet. Voila. Rea...

President Donald J. Trump "If those countries weren't 'sh*tholes', why do their people want to come here (meaning the United States)?" I tend to hear that quite a lot. Not exactly in those words, but with the exact same idea behind it. Would the fact of Wikipedia asserting that �in 2016, the U.S. State Department estimated that there are 9 million U.S. citizens living abroad� turn the United States into a sh*thole? Apparently not; so we must look elsewhere for why other countries under equivalent circumstances are labelled as such. The English-language French newspaper The Local [thelocal.fr] says: �The number of French expats rose by 2 percent in 2015 compared to the previous year, making a total increase of 4.14 percent in two years. There [sic] total number of French nationals registered abroad has reached 1.7 million, according to France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs�. It continues: �However, while the figures reflect the growing tendency to move abroad, t...

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Born in Manila, Jim Pascual Agustin moved to Cape Town in 1994 to be with the Canadian-born South African woman he met while on holiday in the Mountain Province in the Philippines during the monsoon season of the previous year. Agustin writes and translates poetry and fiction in Filipino and English. His work has appeared in Rhino, World Literature Today and Modern Poetry in Translation, among others. Wings of Smoke ( The Onslaught Press , Oxford, 2017) is his eighth book of poetry. [ MORE ]

Geosi Gyasi : When did you start writing? Geoffrey Philp : I was sixteen and in love with the girl next door. I tried to write poems that would impress her. It didn�t work, but I kept on writing. [ MORE ] Geoffrey Philp

South Africa�s National Poet Laureate, Keorapetse �Bra Willie� Kgositsile, has died in Johannesburg. Kgositsile passed away at Milpark Hospital in Parktown. He was seventy-nine. Kgositsile was born in 1938 in Johannesburg, and attended Matibane High School. He began his writing career at the New Age, an anti-apartheid newspaper edited by political activist Ruth First, to which he contributed poetry and news reporting. [ MORE ] Keorapetse Kgositsile