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A South African Poetry House with the prime objective of building a stable and sustainable #PoetryIndustry. For info email [email protected]

Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined February 2015
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Poetry & music @leanorestaurant last night😍. @CSofPoetry will bring #LeanoPoetryNight every last Thursday & what an honour to host the first with these outstanding performers! @soetry_sa @modise_sekgothe & I’ve been listening 🎶 to @Thapelo_Lekoane all morning 🔥. Bafwethu ❤️🙏🏿
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Afternoon heat @CSofPoetry 🔥😊. Every first Saturday 🖤 #poetry #spokenword #theatre
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS🌻 Indigo Volunteers X Black Kids Republic Let's heal at least one part of the world with Poetry _🧚🏾‍♂️ All proceeds from this anthology go towards making this pandemic a little more bearable for Refugees and Victims of War Crimes During Covid-19. _🌻🌻
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The #brownbottles book is out. Order via amaDMs. Officially an #author #poetry
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Bona reatsang... Black Kids Republic presents: Cover Me, I'm Going In!!! Link to full video youtu.be/OXUr84BdxdU ✊🏾❤️ Poetry Lives here!!!
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I told a story about My father being an electrician, about my childhood love story that ended tragically, about Lorenz Chaos Theory. Ithi twa kancane, have a laugh and shed a tear, and then vote for ME 🙋🏾‍♂️. Link: hadithiya.africa/vote-round1… #HadithiyaAfrica – at Vereeniging, South Africa
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Do give a warm Hello to Our Bookhunt's newest partnership.🦋🤓 🌹!!The Makhaye Wine Collection!!🌹 #books #bookhunt #bookstore #booksandwine #wine #winelovers #Joburg
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🐇👑Our first Book hunt Champions!!! Hector Mgiba @Xquizified and Donovan E. Williams @donovan4096. 🧐 a warm shoutout to everyone that came out for some healthy mind games. 🦋 @Donovan40968760 #books #bookhunt #booksinjoburg #cityofjoburg
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"How do i win the hunt?" we're at a whole new level of heat. #bookhunt #kalaharibooks
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caterpillars and book fairs._🧜🏾‍♂️ this was a day worth living, thank you @thabi_dladla
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The library and art book fair. @Thabi_Dladla opened the Fair's dialogue with a question on the importance of preserving each native tongue. Do we continue to "evolve" as human beings and allow communication to grow into whatever it must, or do we insist on thorough documentation
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Are you ready for this year's hunt?
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#DailySun. Si On. #UmkhondoExperience 2 November 19h00 Joburg Theatre R80
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I carry the burden of the broad based joke that has only Rupert, thuma mina and Motsepe laughing. I lift the eternal aim of bereted bullets dismembering mabhush, I lift the jealous curses zaboDlamini khohlakele, the mpimpi accusations, the spells zenyoka yomlilo #Poetry

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6 DAYS to #TheCosmosTribe2 #OpusReacts to @soetry_sa. He will be in the building 🔥🔥 !! 🎭 Wits Theatre 🗓 26 October 🕑 2pm 🎟 R180 at Webtickets 🎟 LINK --> bit.ly/TheCosmosTribe2 Full video at youtu.be/9GKiNtU7s3A
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Through the lens of the Izimbongi Poetry Festival, "When words dance - An evening of Poetry", features the poetic talents of six Johannesburg based wordsmiths. Date: 25 October Time: 17:00pm - 19:00pm Venue: Con Cowan Theatre (APB Campus) Tickets: arts.uj.ac.za/
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With over 50 combined years of poetic practice experience, the barren Jozi skies have at least unleashed upon us three consecutive weeks of spectacular poetry. The three kings comprising Mutle Mothibe, Makhafula Vilakazi and Sabelo Soko... #FridayFeeling

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What's the oldest magazine you've ever read?👀 We're home to as far back as the 1950s. Redefine our history 🖖 #oldies #nigeria #africanmagic #historians #history #bookstore #oldbookstore #books #oldmagazines #oldmedia #entertainmentafrica #archives #ancestors #sabooks