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NEW CONTRAST Issue 193 - Autumn 2021
In this issue:
Artworks & Reviews
- Greatjoy Ndlovu, Alpha Male / Conversations of a Man / Mother’s Love / Nonkululeko
- Cover artwork: Pola Maneli, What Happens Next Came To Me In A Brief Moment of Clarity
- Transcontinental Delay: Wamuwi Mbao In Conversation with Simon van Schalkwyk
- Review: Catallus in South Africa
Poetry
- Busisiwe Mahlangu, I wear mother’s bones
- Melissa Sussens, A New Veterinarian Spends a Compulsory Year Working at a Slaughterhouse
- Stephen Devereux, 2020
- Basil du Toit, Sea languages
- Yuan Changming, Yin/Yang vs Water/Fire: A lesson in Chinese characters
- Anvesh Jain, Voyages
- Susan Woodward, jumpie and winkie
- Sarah Uheida, I was naïve enough to be a woman
- Charika Swanepoel, Anna
- Peter Merrington, Sunday School anniversary
- Zian Viviers, Judas
- Anton Krueger, When
- Angelique Thomas, Wat kriewel in my ma rond Siniko Nomdlomboyi, Undoqo Sisibindi / Akukho nkang’edubul’ingethi
- Lewellin RG Jegels, my karretjie mense
- Sevval Akin, Blood oranges
- Hanta Henning, granaat
- Ferial Mohamed, The Flowerseller
- Omotunde Oredipe, The Offing Place
- Kyle Allan, poem 36
- Nicholas Samaras, How a body becomes California
- Abu Bakr Solomons, Lumumba’s tooth
- Dennis Webster, Morning run in a pandemic
Prose
- Lerothodi Lapula Leeuw, The Waiting Room
- Bongo Rulashe, Askari Surprise at Morule Police Station
- Thomas Pia, The Wishing Well
- Lily Hoang, A Garden
- F.T. Kola, Excerpts from an Encyclopaedia of Fantastical Beings in 999 Volumes
- Stacy Hardy, Men on the Side of the Road
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NEW CONTRAST 192 - Summer 2020
The JUBILEE ISSUE, Summer 2020, no. 192, features a selection of poetry, prose and art celebrating the past 60 years of Contrast / New Contrast.
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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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