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Tag: AVBOB Poetry Awards

AVBOB Persverklaring

10 December 2024 By Versindaba

    Hugh Hodge   CLEAR, SIMPLE WORDS   The art of poetry has a longstanding reputation for being difficult and hard to understand. So it is refreshing to turn to poems written in very short, simple forms. Perhaps the simplest of these is the haiku, a Japanese form consisting of 17 syllables written in…

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AVBOB Persverklaring

17 September 2024 By Versindaba

  Ken Barris   RAISING THE STAKES   There is a trick poets use, especially when inspiration is in short supply: they write poems about writing poems. This is usually a bad idea. Poems about writing can put too much distance between readers and the raw, lived experience that strong poetry needs. But every now…

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AVBOB Persverklaring

12 September 2023 By Versindaba

    TRUSTING THE CREATIVE PROCESS   Until the end of November, aspiring South African poets will be entering their best words into the annual AVBOB Poetry Competition, which offers attractive cash prizes. Many people are intimidated by writing poetry, but there are easy ways to engage with the process. Kobus Moolman is an experienced, multi-award-winning poet…

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Hannes Visser. Nagwaak

1 March 2022 By Versindaba

      Nagwaak   die weerlig verblind die spieëls en ek begin tel duisendeneen duisendentwee duisendendrie duisenden die knal sweepslag en rammel weg   “meer as ‘n kilometer, ons is veilig” sou ek gesê het terwyl ek die kombers vir die soveelste keer om jou lyf vou en jou voorkop soen   “onthou van die honde” sou jy vir die soveelste keer…

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Nuutste kommentaar

  1. Joan Hambidge on 100 Duitse Bestes: Gottfried Benn (1886-1956) (I)11 July 2025

    Hierdie vertalers gee vir ons een van die beste projekte nog op hierdie webblad. Ek lees tans Brecht sing Afrikaans…

  2. Jannie Pretorius on Joan Hambidge. Hierdie lewe11 July 2025

    Mooi!

  3. Eugene Vorster on RIV Christiaan Diedericks7 July 2025

    “Live your Truth” vir Chris skielik is dit stil/ byna subliem/ (jy sal verstaan)/ net nou en dan ‘n nat…

  4. Charl-Pierre Naude on Resensie: “Merang” (Neil Cochrane & Alwyn Roux Reds.)7 July 2025

    Hierdie is 'n teleurstellende en ongeinspireerde resensie deur 'n resensent van wie mens veel meer verwag. Dit lyk meer na…

  5. Bernardus Johannes Odendaal on Ingeborg Bachmann – vertaling in Afrikaans5 July 2025

    Ek stem met Daniel saam!

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