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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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NEW CONTRAST 189 - Autumn 2020
In this issue:
Interviews:
- An Interview with Buhle Nkalashe by David Griessel
Poetry
- Kobus Moolman, Henry and June / The Earth is Flat / I Am Made
- Juanita Louw, Homogeen / Love Machine
- Rizwan Akhtar, Last Year / Now We Will Say "Happy New Year"
- Steve Lambert, Unbecoming / Ars Poetica
- Fiona Zerbst, Closer to Light / On the Edge of Darkness / Portrait of Three Lions
- Bibhu Padhi, Another Need / The Address
- Warren Jeremy Rourke, Washing Up / Double Rainbow
- Johann Lodewyk Marais, Die stasiewa / Die eerste wens
- Stuart Payne, The Planet
- Justin Fox, Building Wall
- Stephanie Williams, Mother / Let’s Talk
- Alessio Zanelli, Hiker and Lines / Dear Old Beloved Padan Fog
- Sarah Frost, Gold
- Ian Salvaña, This Town We Left To Miss, You Said, Is Home / The Birthing of a Poem
- Tom Paine, Seeds / Kamikaze Bees / That’s All
Prose
- Gaele Sobott, Grandmother
- Melissa Gow, One of Us Is Bleeding
- Jonathan Tager, Guidestar
- Rémy Ngamije, Black, Coloured And Blue (or, The Gangster’s Girlfriend)
Artworks
- Jono Dry, In My Silence / Restrained I Unravel / Wrapped in Tradition / Separation
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NEW CONTRAST 188 - Summer 2019/2020
In this issue:
Interviews:
- Writing New Depths: An Interview with Megan Ross by Wamuwi Mbao
Poetry
- Tony Voss, Are We All In This Together?
- Clifton Redmond, The Taxidermist / Unborn / The Snowman
- Hendrik J. Botha, Kaas / Heerengracht
- Ayanda Billie, Ingoma Yemvula / Intsomi
- Louella Sullivan, Transition
- Peter Merrington, For Rememberance / Vacation Reading / Grand Mort
- Christine Coates, Throwing Bones
- Oz Hardwick, The Sandman / The Lost Art of Pen Pals
- Hennie Nortjé, ’n Geval op O. R. Tambo / Schrödinger of Nietzsche s’n?
- Mthunzikazi A. Mbungwana, Imilebe Yethu
- Douglas Reid Skinner, A Short Treatise on Mortality / Thirty-Four South, Eighteen East
- Martha Landman, Komatiepoort Primary, 1962 / Bakerville, Transvaal, 1963
- Len Verwey, A Boy
- Nicole Best, The Flood
- Alexander Smith, Guilt’s Short Trip / Lost Assured
- Mathew Friday, The Prague Hare
- Susan Woodward, becoming
- David Copeland, Bush Fear
- Carl Boon, The Other Woman / Dream of a King Unearthed
- Patricia Schonstein, You Visit From the Dead
- Thomas Piekarski, Miles Davis Unleashed
- Stuart A. Paterson, Glena Rosa
- Abu Bakr Solomons, The Arithmetic of Forgetting
- Sally Ann Murray, no love lost / Liefdesstryd (vertaling)
- Joan Hambridge, Liefdesstryd (vertaling)
Prose
- Ntando Taro Nzuza, No one Dies on Drews Avenue
- Cathal Kehoe, Pretty Pictures
- Jaco Fouché, What I Observe
- Sisca Julius, The Land of Seabreeze and Sourdough
Artworks
- Theo Paul Vorster, Lautrec’s Dog / Vincent’s Other Dog / Magritte’s Dog / Dali’s Dog
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