Poetry Africa 2024 will be hosted in Durban, Bloemfontein, and Johannesburg, South Africa from October 3 – 12, 2024. The theme is “Poetry: Somehow We Survive”
Poetry Africa is an international poetry festival first hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa in 1996. Since that first edition, Durban and other cities have hosted some of the leading names in poetry across Africa and abroad. It features poets in performances, panel discussions, campus and school visits, poetry exchanges, book launches, open mic sessions, and a slam jam competition.
The theme for 2024, Poetry: Somehow We Survive, is inspired by one of the poems by Denis Brutus, a leading South African poet, activist, educator, and journalist who died in December 2009. This year marks the centenary of his birth (November 28, 1924). It is intended to inspire poets to write as a response to how the human spirit survives and is resilient to the constantly changing political, social, and technological changes that impact our lives.
We’ll keep an eye out for the guests closer to the date; we ask now that you block off the first weekend of October for this event if you are in South Africa.
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