Botsotso 18: Poetry

Description

The Botsotso literary journal started in 1996 as a monthly 4 page insert in the New Nation, an independent anti-apartheid South African weekly and reached over 80,000 people at a time – largely politisized black workers and youth – with a selection of poems, short stories and short essays that reflected the deep changes taking place in the country at that time. Since the closure of the New Nation in 1999, the journal has evolved into a stand-alone compilation featuring the same mix of genres, and with the addition of photo essays and reviews. The Botsotso editorial policy remains committed to creating a mix of voices which highlight the diverse spectrum of South African identities and languages, particularly those that are dedicated to radical expression and examinations of South Africa's complex society. With over seventy poets represented, this is a bumper edition of the journal and given the number of interesting and accomplished poems received (over the past two years since publication of Botsotso 17), we believed it worthwhile to break from tradition and dedicate this edition wholly to poetry.

Sujets

• Littérature Africaine
• Littérature Africaine

Informations

• Publié par: Botsotso Publishing
• Date de parution: 29 décembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781990922169
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

Extrait

POETRY rom Prîvae and Pubîc Paces

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BOTSOTSO

Fîrs pubîsed by Bososo în 2018

Box 30952 Braamoneîn 2017

Emaî: bososo@arsînk.co.za Websîe: www.bososo.org.za

He poems and îmages©e wrîers and arîss emseves

ïSBN: 978-0-9947081-2-0

Edîors: Aan Koskî orwîz, Sîpîwe ka Ngwenya, Mbonenî ïke Muîa

Desîgn, ayou and make-up Vîvîenne Preson

Bososo woud îke o ank e Naîona Ars Councî o Sou Arîca or supporîng e pubîcaîon o îs coecîon.

Editorial Wî over seveny poes represened, îs îs a bumper edîîon o e journa and gîven e number o îneresîng and accompîsed poems receîved (over e pas wo years sînce pubîcaîon o Bososo 17), we beîeved î worwîe o break rom radîîon and dedîcae îs edîîon woy o poery. owever, în addîîon, an equîvaen voume o sor Icîon and essays wî soon be pubîsed as e number o poweru sorîes a reaced us was sîmîary împressîve.

ïn genera, e as wo years ave been very dîicu ones or souern Arîca. Beween Zuma, Mugabe, Mswaî and e Mozambîcan and esoo eîes, new eîgs o corrupîon, megaomanîa and abuse o sae power mean a mîîons o peope conînued o anguîs în povery and were subjec o exreme expoîaîon by equay corrup Bîg Busîness casses. Forunaey Mugabe and Zuma are emseves becomîng eaures o e pas bu eîr egacîes o same wî îve on or some îme – parîcuary î eîr îgy compromîsed and decaden parîes conînue o rue.

Wa as îs poîîca and economîc deadock mean or e ars? ow ave ar-makers (în a e dîferen orms) responded o îs îsorîc and ragîc seback or îberaîon rom coonîaîsm and apareîd?

Knowîng a î was aways goîng o be a srugge o sît e conscîousness o e generaîons o wîes aîned by racîsm and e rîg o expoî, arîss oug o be în e oreron o exposîng e noîon a Arîcanîzaîon o our socîey woud auomaîcay enaî e corrupîon and mîsmanagemen a Fanon and oers oresaw or e pos-îberaîon epoc. Ha souern Arîca as no escaped îs depressîng sîuaîon – and seen a correspondîng surge în capîaîs (bo wîe and back) accumuaîon/concenraîon –

ceraîny gîves us ‘ood or oug’. Arîss need o ‘ak back’ o a abuses o power -back or wîe, oca or goba – so a our crîîque îs ones and as objecîve as possîbe: sîedîng any pary rom crîîcîsm îs se-deeaîng or e woe o socîey bu especîay or e back majorîy wo are so margînaîsed and în need o drasîc cange în order o access e means or îvîng decen îves.

Bu wa as been e ‘arîs’ response (and more specîIcay e wrîers, poes and eare-makers)? Wîe a recen sudy o grade 4 Sou Arîcan cîdren as sown a over 80% do no undersand wa ey read, a e sae and scoo îbrary sysems conînue o îgnore e work o oca wrîers, a book caîns ave convered o an excusîve sysem o ‘sae or reurn’ drîvîng pubîsers and dîsrîbuors ou o busîness, we sî ack a wrîers or perormîng ars organîzaîon a can ake up îssues, bo specîIc o ar producîon and o e more genera maers o cuura dîversîy, anguage use and deveopmen, e medîa and communîcaîon, as we as îeracy. And, as suc, we ave no organîsed way o respond o e conînuîng sagnaîon o vernacuar anguages, ow eves o îneres în souern Arîcan creaîve wrîîng and wîdespread uncîona îîeracy.

ïn genera, despîe e need or exporîng/anayzîng/commenîng on îs ragîc neo-coonîa beraya, e ars sep cear and eave e conscîousness and aspîraîona vaues o e workîng cass o be saped by e predîcabe rouînes o eevîsîon soap opera, musîc a îs argey vacuous Aro-pop/gospe/îp-op, game sows and ceebrîy spoîgs. O course, e aîure o e SABC o raîse our genera awareness o Sou Arîca’s posîîon în Arîca, oer îner- Arîcan conacs and e wîder word îs a serîous obsace o poîîca deveopmen. And îs aîure o propery ‘înorm and educae’ and o însead eneraîn a e mos basîc eve, îs a good îndîcaor o ow e ‘ransormaîon’ process as argey been squandered or îndîvîdua sor erm Inancîa gaîn roug neworks o paronage.

And so, gîven a ese crîîca breakdowns, we are în a perîod o depressîon and unceraîny, desperaey needîng new movemens and res eadersîp în a speres o socîey. (ï îs eîng a even e very necessary “Fees mus Fa/Rodes mus Fa” suden movemens seem o ave coapsed îno secarîan and naîonaîs dîvîsîons.)

Bu îs îs e woe pîcure? Forunaey no. For îs seecîon o poems sows a many arîss are sî sensîîvey engagîng wî e îssues a afec us as socîa beîngs as we as ose more prîvae aspecs o our compex îves. And îs îs no e rue expressîon o Ubunu and e ‘ï-Hou’ reaîonsîp în wîc e ‘ï”recognîses e ‘Oer’ as an equa and as ‘wory o consîderaîon’ as îse?

As suc, despîe e goom, Bososo wî aemp o provîde a paorm or work a îs reevan, we crated and beyond cîcé.

Contents

Sodom and Gomorra –Napo Maseane 1 Mîscegenaîon -M. Labuscagne 2 You Few e Cacuus o e Word –Awogbemîla Temîtope Ayodejî 3 Poîsed Poems; Sînky; Bona Fîde -Natalîe Raîloun 4 Now ï can e you; Tea and cake; As în: e was a man wo ad o ave a woman –Mîke Alfred 5 Everyîng breaks agaîns e mounaîn; Seenbosc -hokozîle Madonko 6 Kua Kokwana; Xîpîrîng!!!! –Nkateko Maluleke 7 ïndonesîa; Burgersor andI –Vonanî Bîla 8 unc wî e Pîed Pîper; Wased –Sanet van Rensburg 9 He boy ï kîssed a e greenouse -Gabrîel Hoosaîn Kan 10 He Wave -Doroty Murray 11 Coîbrî or a Gîr –Lepota Cosmo 12 Promîse; Wen e îs were Dark; So Muc o Decare -Mîke Weeder 13 Poeîc Scrîp - Botsotso Jesters 14 Somewere; Saxurns; Tou’s Bues; Tsîdî’s oboa –Kabelo Mofokeng 15 Maakabe; Sebankanyana e Mososo; a ke o opoa; a Peo Nkîse – Mputlane wa Bofelo 16 Adam, by Eve; Cobus -Lara Potgîeter 17 Unconscîous Conscîence; Remînd Me; -Amy Sîbîya 18 A Medîaîon on Ceraîn Tîmes and Paces -Stepen Faulkner 19 Kraa o our Dreams; îs Vîva’s! -Mandla Malandela 20 Yînya’uqobo; Umsasazî; încamî’îrwamncwa –Bafana Carles Peter 21 He akaînîy o boed waer; ome address; Tenaces –Makosazana Xaba 22 He amous sou arîcan poe; anoer beer, guys? –Rapael D’Abdon 23 Wen women are raîn saîons –Dîmakatso Sedîte 24 Quînessence; Umîo; Da înLasun rae keeps rîsîn; To Bavîno Mcana – Sîpîwe ka Ngwenya 25

Brîngîng For; Knock-Knock; no one îs sae –Allan Kolskî Horwîtz 26 Psycîarîc Emergency; Seep -Rosamund Handler 27 He ïnerîance; Wa o Say o e ïmmîgraîon Oicer Wen e Asks You Were You Are From; Ode o Soap –Sara Lubala 28 He Serîous Moonîg –Jon Carse 29 Vuka Munu Omusa; Hemba amî; Sapea ïsîzwe –hulanî Sîba 30 Here; Soîude –Kyle hobeka Allan 31 Cîy Buzz; Under e Souern Cross –Vera Mîaîlovîc-Dîckman 32 Myserîous Gîr -Lîsa–Marîe Labercensîe 33 Hîs as Embrace în Darkness –Josepîne Bonaparte 34 You ave no me a poe –Unatî Slasa 35 13 Aprî 2006 beore e Passover eve; ï am no; Eewanî N. P Muîa (Oc, 1984) –Mbonenî Ike Muîla 36 Seep; Beac –Donald Parenzeev 37 Herešo; easeng a rena –Kgoogo Gîlbert Molepo 38 Seo –Zama Madînana 39 ow dangerous ey are, e acors! –Sjaka S. Septembîr 40 Musîc îs our paîn, and our paîn îs our musîc; Dragon Monoogues – Raaez Jacobs 41 Tîpoed -Pelelanî Makanya 42 Now we, oo, rîde în îmousînes –Mattews Posa 43 Mîne, ers?; Sar; Hank You –Joop Bersee 44 your moer îs jus your moer –Kadîja Sarîfe 45 Porraî o e poe as young woman; Case în a oca Traîn – Candramoan S 46 oy Day –Anna Varney-Wong 47 ï was în ove wî a Psyco -Pozîsa Mkele 48 ïdenîy (Crîsîs) –Lînda Loubscer 49 Wîe Gî –Kîrby Manîa 50 He Quesîon o Nocurna Carnaîons -Hyun-Jung Anna Kîm 51 We woud no pu î pas us –Len Verwey 52 Sad -Mbalî Masîya 53 Naguî; Versoenîngsvers; Fokonou –Lunette Elle Warren 54 ago –Mîke Cope 55

He Rîc –Brent Meersman 56 Does our ruîn beneI e ear? –Molei Lebone 57 My os Cîd –Dîrontso Mtwa 58 Boa More (Song o îe) –Jana van Nîekerk 59 Ageîng; ove Mîned –Abu Bakr Solomons 60 ïnkanankana; ïsîzukuwane –Goodwîll Sîbonîso Mkwanazî 61 He Pas; Wîner Braaî –Sara Frost 62 He Sorm, Krooa’s Ay; Hîs and ; He Ars–Frank Meîntjîes 63 Hîrs; Naîona Unîversîy Sudown, Sou Arîca, Ocober 2015; Sea Ses; Caracers în a Psycoogîs’s Waîîng Room –Nîca Cornell 64 Trade Wînds (exrac rom Vespa Dîarîes) –Arî Sîtas 65 Anywere; Because –Londîwe Majozî 66 He Man Wo Wîsed e was ego; He Baske and e Road; ow o Make a Saagubang eîcoper –Jîm Pasqual Agustîn 67 ow ï sared wrîîng on a noepad; He Sîence o Words; Take Away – Maakomele (Mak) Manaka 68 Sunday drîve în e Overberg –Heîdî Grunebaum 69

Special feature

Poems and persecuîon în Occupîed Paesîne –Dareen Tatour 70