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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.
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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NEW CONTRAST 187 - Spring 2019
In this issue:
Interviews:
- The Proust Questionnaire: Sally Ann Murray
Poetry
- Jeanne Ellis, Tableaux Vivants
- Rebecca Ruth Gould, On Loving Two Men
- Rizwan Akhtar, Done by Silence / Consequences
- Medzani Musandiwa, Village Roads on a Moonlit Night
- Nadia Sanger, Child, Outside / Father
- Esona Madikwa, (Awunagama)
- Julia Smuts Louw, The Weak Spot
- Charika Swanepoel, I Fell in Love with an Historian Once
- Michael Shum, Rule Britannia / Bite
- Marilé du Plessis, Red Velvet Cake
- Elodi Troskie, die hond op die strand in Hua Hin, Thailand / tattoo van ’n
olifant
- Lorinda van Heerden, StoriesseirotS / Bird Watching
- Pieter Odendaal, Ouma, Here’s the Imphepho / miskien is die hiernamaals
- Francine Simon, Ganges / Pondicherry / Cow
- Johann van der Walt, Twee Groot Mossels
- Aaliyah Davids, Script
- André J. Kershaw, G-String / Stellenbosch
- Caitlin Alice Wiggill, Air-eater
- Jeani Margje Goedhart, Wordbr[Acre]: Fragments to the Speaker for the [Art.
- Alex Dreppec, Spam Poem
- Nicholas A. Dawn, double-dollop hybrid
- Awethu Putumani, Intlakohlaza</li>
- Paula Fourie, To a Future South African
- Julie Nxadi, Iinyawo Zinodaka (Mud on her feet)
Prose
- Shubnum Khan, Waiting for the Moringa Tree to Flower
- Sarah Uheida, Where Missing Girls Go
- Mathilda Slabbert, Untied
- P P Fourie, Tones of Glass
- A W Bosman, Mi Corazón
- Abbey Khambule, Mu Arae
- Acan Innocent Immaculate, Musezi
Artworks and Other
- Robyn Pretorius, Basotho, Original Royals / Milestones / Myles / Unfolding Seeflex
- Distilling the Chaos: An Interview with Masande Ntshanga by Wamuwi Mbao
- Notes from a Bibliophile: Views and Reviews from Tony Ullyatt
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NEW CONTRAST 186 - Winter 2019!
In this issue:
Interviews:
- The Proust Questionnaire: Gilbert Gibson
- In Search of a Sculpture’s Soul: Interview with Maureen Quin by David Griessel
Poetry
- Joan Hambidge, Montserrat Caballé
- Susan Castillo Street, Gomera / Joined
- Noah Swinney, Ring Like a Roman Candle / At Rock-Pools
- Arja Salafranca, On the Third Birthday / Green Tea Morning
- Basil du Toit, Studies in the Resurrection of the Body / War Poet / In the Swash Zone
- Hugh McMillan, My Mother’s Kitchen
- Angelique Thomas, There is Always a Dog Barking in my Neighbourhood
- Harry Owen, Paula / Poem after the Poem / Tubifex Tubifex
- Jean Wallace McKeown, Whale
- Michelle Naudé, Lady Macbeth / Astralbody
- Christiaan Naudé, Nagskade
- Sneha Madhavan-Reese, Dung Beetles
- Kelwyn Sole, Farm
- Sibusiso Ernest Masilela, Open Letter / Auto-Pilot
- Thobeke Ndlebe-September, Inkosazana / Oyena Mfo Ndimthandayo Stephen Symons, Thames Dusk / Reading Amichai
- Gilbert Gibson, engela, et al
Prose
- Luke Percy, Sangoma
- Tebello Mzamo, Tuned Out
- Alistair Mackay, Fever Tree
- Melissa Gow, Mr Mokoena’s Ocean
Artworks and Other
- Maureen Quin, Hunted / The Ultimate Sacrifice / Pieta / Chase II
- Notes from a Bibliophile: Views and Reviews from Tony Ullyatt
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