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New Contrast is one of the first South African literary journals and it is devoted to publishing the best of poetry and prose, art, reviews and interviews from both local and international authors.

 

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NEW CONTRAST 191 - Spring 2020

In this issue:

Artworks

• Azael Langa, Distance travelers 2019 / Paved path 2019 / intellectual property 2020 / Our efforts don’t go in vain 2020

Poetry

• Sarah Uheida, I Once was Naïve Enough to be a Woman / A Country is No Small Thing
• Stephen Devereux, Family Man
• Berno van Zijl, Moving On
• Connor Cogill, Sunday Roast
• Jarryd Terblanche, Imagine
• Rebecca Robinson, Lined Paper
• Rustin Reiners, I'm Thinking
• Aiden Louw, The Geyser
• John Ellis, Unsettled Conditions
• Kristen Harding, Mothballs and Tablecloths / Cousin/Sister
• Celine Solomons, Two Plates
• Jamie Conway, Blurry
• Kerenza Lunde, Liam
• Samantha Horwitz, Coming Undone: Lockdown Level 4
• Sharon Evans, Wash, Rinse, Repeat
• Kirsten Deane, My Sister is My Mother / My Fat Friend
• Lara Alhadeff, I wanted
• Mari de Beer, Traces
• Carla Cronje, Kanon at Night
• Abaashieyah Moses, The Pigeon Farmer
• Justin Williams, Homeward
• Gillian Rennie, Here is the River / Five Hundred Grams
• Cornelia Fick, The Roof
• Diana Bloem, Arlene Lives in Our House
• Rosa Keet, 'n Harari storie / Nog steeds om die gebeendere...

Prose

• Alexis Pretorius, Cologne
• Christan Botes, Suit in the Desert
• Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe, Ouma’s Glasses
• Ina Conradie, Naartjies in Lockdown
• Lara Alhadeff, Commitment
• Warrick Sony (Swinney), The Palisade of Culture
• Julia Martin, Macabees

 

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NEW CONTRAST 190 - Winter 2020

In this issue:

Interviews:

• Condensing Life: Wamuwi Mbao In Conversation with Ayanda Billie and Tony Ullyatt

Poetry

• Tony Ullyatt, River Willows: Senryū From The Lockdown / To Be Good At Dying
• Ayanda Billie, ukuba ibingaba kokwam ukuthanda / Kwiindawo Zonke
• Marlise Joubert, wete
• Charl-Pierre Naudé, Einde van die dag
• Douglas Reid Skinner, Found Poem
• Frank Dullaghan, How to Survive / Locked-in Blues
• Gale Acuff, Halves / One day when I die I’ll live forever
• Mark Espin, This Is Not A Seascape / How The World Is Now
• Zoë Boshoff, Wide Awake
• John Ellis, Eavesdropping
• Shaun Pieter Clamp, Like a Sail
• Charissa Cassels, Languages Are My Home
• Oliver Findlay Price, Prune
• Emily Buchanan, Wild Animals Should Not Be Pets
• Pitambar Naik, Bad Weather / Grandpa
• Elmarie Viljoen-Massyn, Stekelson
• Johann van der Walt, vanuit ’n gewonde stad
• Betony Adams, Mary, Mary
• Stephen Symons, The Certainty Of Wind And Closed Doors
• Paula Fourie, The Ornithologist’s Apprentice
• Phelelani Makhanya, The Budget List
• Joel Scarfe, We Pretend
• Simon van Schalkwyk, Sea Wall
• Joan Hambidge, Covid-19
• Toast Coetzer, in die weke voor die virus
• Adré Marshall, Nightjar

Prose

• Rofhiwa Maneta, Wellbutrin
• Jake Shore, Both Our Hands
• James Mulhern, A Nun’s Arse
• Jo-Ann Bekker, Hornets and Dragons

Artworks

• Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, The Archivist / Mokoro I / Kwame / Storm

 

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