The Johannesburg Review of Books • 17th February 2023

'I wanted to place myself in conversation with the living and the dead’—Maneo Refiloe Mohale in conversation with Makhosazana Xaba

In opening up a space for wide-ranging, erudite and graceful conversations, JRB Patron Makhosazana Xaba aims to correct the misdeeds of the past by engaging black women and non-binary poets seriously on their ideas and on their work.

Delphi Space • 9th January 2023

Conjure a Ghost (Collaboration w/ Kirill Berezovski)

Conjure a Ghost, is a unique multidisciplinary collaboration across bodies, worlds, words and time. Using loose, poetic spoken-word fragments from a diary Maneo Mohale wrote in the early days of the COVID-19 global pandemic, dancer and choreographer Kirill Berezovski uses movement to interpret enunciated text, exploring the grey spaces between impulse, response and creation.

SMAC Gallery • 1st January 2023

MIRROR POEM (forthcoming)

Forthcoming ekphrastic poem responding to the work of Frances Goodman.

WAAA • 10th August 2022

01. Maneo Mohale, The poet (Podcast)

“What it means for me to be Black and queer and trans or non-binary or all of these names make me legible I suppose in a western framework of gender and sexuality. But increasingly the longer that I'm here and the deeper I ask myself further and more ancestral questions about identity and sexuality and desire and kinship, the more those categories dissolve."

Male Discourse • 15th June 2022

[NB4A] [Prose-Praise] [Good Boy]

"ok then: let the poem act as a ribbon of sensation, mid-ravel, unravelling. stalling at first, ending as a coil, on its knees."

African Book Festival Berlin • 2nd May 2022

Alexandra Speaks with Maneo Mohale (Interview)

Our literature Ambassador Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako spoke with Maneo Refiloe Mohale on April 30th at 11am Berlin time (CET), ahead of their appearance at the 2022 African Book Festival in Berlin.

Poetry Foundation • 19th April 2022

All The Apostles are Black, All the Saints Queer, and All of Them Are Brave (Pt.2)

The VS podcast is a bi-weekly series where poets confront the ideas that move them. Hosted by poets Danez Smith and Franny Choi presented by the Poetry Foundation. Guest co-hosted with Kopano Maroga & Produced by Maia Macdonald.

The Red Wheelbarrow • 27th March 2022

Beg (Sestina for a domme)

"If I gave it to you, where would you tuck my tongue?"

Poetry Foundation • 15th March 2022

All The Apostles are Black, All the Saints Queer, and All of Them Are Brave (Pt.1)

The VS podcast is a bi-weekly series where poets confront the ideas that move them. Hosted by poets Danez Smith and Franny Choi presented by the Poetry Foundation. Guest co-hosted with Kopano Maroga & Produced by Maia Macdonald.

SCAFFOLD | for queer creators and culture • 1st December 2021

Scaffold Profile & Interview

"Work that has changed my life is work that makes me feel possible. I think I want someone to pick up my work, and feel like they’re possible too."

BKhz • 14th September 2021

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? '

Full Stop • 14th September 2021

Silent Still, Singing Still (Review)

Review of Kopano Maroga & Maneo Mohale's debut collections, by Keely Shinners.

Goodman Gallery • 19th June 2021

the names (poem)

Short poem written in response to Markers of Presence, an exhibition of colour photographs by David Goldblatt.

Brittle Paper • 11th June 2021

South African Maneo Mohale is Winner of the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry

"South African poet Maneo Mohale has received the 2021 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry for their collection Everything is a Deathly Flower. "

Nebraska Today • 4th June 2021

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 & Ash • 1st May 2021

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.

The Red Wheelbarrow • 21st April 2021

Papaver Somniferum (Miss You)

Short poem, first read at The Red Wheelbarrow

News24 • 23rd February 2021

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.

in review • 23rd February 2021

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."

ROOM Magazine: Special Issue • 15th January 2021

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