MIRROR POEM (forthcoming)
Forthcoming ekphrastic poem responding to the work of Frances Goodman.
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. But I cannot ignore the political reality of needing to be visible and legible to my own community..."
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.
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.
Beg (Sestina for a domme)
"If I gave it to you, where would you tuck my tongue?"
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 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."
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.
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. "
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.
Papaver 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
Lesser Violence '20 - Session 4
"This poetry playlist contains content that features frank discussions & explorations of the following: cissexism, sexual violence, racism, police brutality, recreational drug use, blood, dysphoria, suicide, self-harm, sexually explicit verse, and physical abuse. Please (please!) take all the care and time you need working through the poetry and videos."
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.
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