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NEW CONTRAST 174 - VOYAGE EDITION!

In this issue:

Notes from the editors

Voyage out voyage in

Interview

Joan Hambidge, In conversation with Michèle Betty (translation into English by Michèle Betty)

Poetry

• Breyten Breytenbach, Afreis
• P.R. Anderson, First Light
• José Claassen, Streets of Eldoraigne / Marshalltown
• Gail Dendy, Limewood
• Catherine Fletcher, Meditation at Lion’s Head / Namibian Sands
• Phelelani Makhanya, Distance
• Tony Voss, Remembering Enna / Welcome to Europe
• Linda Kaoma, This resurrection
• Ian C. Smith, Leaving, Returning
• Douglas Reid Skinner, Winding Tunnels
• Heidi Henning, Scattered Soul
• Afric McGlinchey, Unfolding
• Jean Wallace-McKeown, First English Winter
• Arja Salafranca, The ghosts on our skins
• Robin Winckel-Mellish, Migrant
• Alexander Smith, The Vessel
• Suné van Rooyen, Skryf / Kierang-Kierang
• Marian Kilcoyne, Liebeslied
• Peter Merrington, Her Diadem
• Sivatho Rigala, Akukho Nzwan’ Ingenasiphako
• Archie Swanson, pelion
• Kirby Manià, The Seamstress
• Richard Higgs, Metrorail

Prose

• Zoë Wicomb, An extract from her latest novel
• Phyllis Orner, An extract from Lady Liberty
• Thamela Alven, Mamela (translated into English by Sindiwe Magona)
• Katherine Brown, Pass From Oblivion
• Jo-Ann Bekker, What Nombuyiselo Said

Creative Non-fiction

• Julia Martin, Making the Sacred

CARTOGRAPHY OF THE IMAGINATION

• Imraan Coovadia, The Institute for Taxi Poetry
• Ivan Vladislavic, Portrait with Keys #63: The Pre-Raphaelite Dream

Artwork by

• Alexia Vogel, Upon the Isle / Bos

 

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NEW CONTRAST 173 - MANIFESTO EDITION!

In this issue:

Notes from the editor

Meg Vandermerwe, In the heat of the day...

Interview

Zakes Mda, In conversation with Michèle Betty

Manifestos

• Antjie Krog
• Sindiwe Magona
• Valda Jansen, That which is within you
• Henrietta Rose-Innes
• Lauren Beukes

Poetry

• Joan Hambidge, David Bowie
• Abigail George, Oliver Hermanus / Passage into the volcano
• Tariro Ndoro, Cross the border by night
• Lise Day, Refugee
• Vincent van der Zee, Distrik Sewe
• Jan Moran Neil, Dolly Pop and the Garage Wall
• Jolyn Phillips, KRUIS en MUNT / Ballade van wasdag
• Atholl E. Williams, When we see / Sisyphus, A Nation
• Finuala Dowling, Life Lesson
• Graham Mort, Last day in Obs / Age
• Hendrik J. Botha, Interseks / Angola
• Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese, Sheila she was a friend of mine
• Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese, Father: on being a husband
• Saaleha Idrees Bamjee, The disappearing man / Waiting
• Tim Koehn, Dusk-song / Barber
• Juanita Louw, Die groen man / Ars poetica
• Christine Coates, Equinox caller / Heritage Site
• Karin Schimke, January. Swim / How the architect lives
• Kerry Hammerton, Penelope

Prose

• Ryk Hattingh, Val
• Hilda Wilson, Tonsillitis
• Christopher Kudyahukudadirwe, Voices of the Ancestors

Artwork by

Willem Samuel, Extracts from Mengelmoes

 

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