Lunga Ntila - God Among Us
'What do we make then, of Ntila’s insistence that “we are god-like beings and that God can manifest in human form”? Who is the “we” signalled and spoken to, here? '
Silent Still, Singing Still (Review)
Review of Kopano Maroga & Maneo Mohale's debut collections, by Keely Shinners.
the names (poem)
Short poem written in response to Markers of Presence, an exhibition of colour photographs by David Goldblatt.
Mohale wins Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry
South African poet Maneo Refiloe Mohale has been named the winner of the African Poetry Book Fund’s 2020 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, for their collection “Everything is a Deathly Flower.”
Years of fire, year of ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation
Year of fire, year of ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation In Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation, fifty years of protest poetry are brought together in one volume by literary critic and lecturer Dr Wamuwi Mbao.
Paparver Somniferum (Miss You)
Short poem, first read at The Red Wheelbarrow
Love, abundant: A micro love story
Here Maneo Mohale considers abundant love as a part of Arts24's series More Than One Kind of Love. Image by Neo Baepi.
Maneo Mohale on Andile Buka
"Our work is brittle work: the reluctant lifting of tiny words of impossible weight, only to unmake them one layer at a time. A vocation of delamination and inquiry, the peeling and shedding of the tough and the tender."
On Community, Language & Ancestors (Interview)
"I left my interview with Maneo buzzing with energy, inspired by our conversation about the Sesotho language, the messiness of time, the potential of poetic forms, the expansive, complicated landscape of trauma and memory, the humour of learning, and joy." Interview by Selina Boan
Everything is red cotton: A conversation between Maneo Mohale and vangile gantsho
Earlier this month, Maneo Mohale sat down to talk to vangile gantsho about the various points of convergence and divergence in their collections.
Patriarchal violence: a systemic war on our bodies (video)
A series dealing with broad histories of gender and violence in South Africa and across the world. The first discussion speaks to the ongoing cultures of violence against queer, trans & femme people and how we can cultivate forms of care and resistance for ourselves and our communities during this time of physical distance.
2020 Ingrid Jonker Prize for English Poetry shortlist announced
- All the Places by Musawenkosi Khanyile (uHlanga Press, 2019)
- Everything is a Deathly Flower by Maneo Mohale (uHlanga Press, 2019)
- Skeptical Erections by Mxolisi Dolla Sapeta (Deep South, 2019)
- Zikr by Saaleha Idrees Bamjee (uHlanga Press, 2018)
Every Deathly Flower and its Stem (Interview)
"In order to speak the unspeakable, to illuminate the night room, Mohale invites onto their pages the words of others; to stand vigil, to bear witness and to harness their words as lighthouses to navigate the torrid waters of violence, blackness, queerness, femininity, ancestry, memory and the unending labour of healing, undoing and becoming."
"Sinekhaya Emdanceweni"
"We are unmistakeably, undeniably blessed to have an artist like Desire in our midst. Their debut offering is an immensely generous gift: bursting with complexity, stubbornly experimental, infused with a ferocious originality."
A candid offering, both serene and piercing (Review)
"Reading this work is like listening to an Esperanza Spalding and Nina Simone collaboration album, a duet between thorns and petals that is both piercing and serene."
"Sandton Skye" | 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry
Poem published in the 2nd volume of 20.35 Africa. Edited by Belkhyr and Kayo Chingonyi, appearing first on Brittle Paper.
Everything Is a Deathly Flower (Interview)
“For many writers, the process of writing can be a purification and purgation of emotions, a renewal and restoration, but Mohale speaks of it as “a very painful process punctuated with little miraculous moments of discovery, a container for complicated truths”.
Event: Johannesburg launch of “Everything is a Deathly Flower”
Joined by Megan Ross and Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane, Mohale grappled with sexual assault and the process of reconstructing life thereafter through their collection.
Everything Is A Deathly Flower (book)
In one of the most anticipated debut collections of recent years, Maneo Mohale reckons boldly with the experience of – and the reconstruction of a life after – a sexual assault.
"The Scrutiny of Now" (Essay) | Radiant Voices: 23 Feminist Essays for Rising Up Inspired by EMMA Talks
Radiant Voices is the anthology inspired by EMMA Talks, the Vancouver-based speakers’ series that amplifies the voices of women-identified, trans, and gender-nonconforming folks. Curated by carla bergman.
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