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Anthology: Volume 7

Each poem gifts us something better: the struggle to find identities, relations, meanings, and the struggle for a language that can do heavy lifting. Many of the poems grapple with the meaning of family and connection with others, with what we can find in God and what may be needed of us to answer that call properly.

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Can Poetry Offer Honesty and Alternative Returns?: On Poetry, Publication, and Finding Ways of Returning | Diepreye and Zibusiso Mpofu

I think poetry offers us alternative ways of return. One that easily comes to mind at the moment is return via memory. When we write in retrospect, a poem can help us return to the past to extract new interpretations and understandings of events and feelings – Diepreye

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“I Probe the Dreamworld via Imaginative Exercises” – An Interview with Mary-Alice Daniel

The mood-scape I mean to craft pans around a supramundane staging ground, destabilized and teetering in the ever presence of harm. I intended to resist and repel every instinct and effort of my reader to locate a thread or string that coheres and resolves, that eases, that moves toward conclusion or remedy or harmony.

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Zama Madinana

Zama Madinana is a South African poet based in Johannesburg. He’s the author of the full-length collection ’94 (2023) which was longlisted for the 2022 South African Literary Award. His work has appeared in The Shallow Tales Review, Kalahari Review, Efiko, Libretto, Brittle Paper, Olney, and other literary publications.