THE annual Poetry Africa Festival, hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), takes place in Durban from 7 to 12 October.
Celebrating its 23rd edition, the festival features a host of local and international poets, at various venues and schools around Durban, with opening night and evening sessions at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre.
The six-day programme will feature interactions and engagements with poets through performances, readings and book-launches with a number of poets featured each evening. Once again the festival includes the ever-popular Durban Slam Jam Competition and the festival finale, which showcases all the poets in the festival. The daytime programme includes a mashup of workshops, talks, discussions competitions, open mic opportunities, as well as visits to schools.
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Sixteen poets are in the line-up for the festival, including local South African and international poets from Egypt, the USA, Spain, the Ukraine, and Nigeria.
The full programme for Poetry Africa can be viewed on the website https://poetryafrica.ukzn.ac.za/. Tickets are R60 for adults and R40 for pensioners and students, and can be purchased through Computicket.
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