Dawn Garisch‘s third poetry collection – The Consulting Room – is a wonderful reason to celebrate, and we hope that you will all join us next week Tuesday, 11 November 2025, at The Book Lounge for the launch of this stunning new work by one of Karavan Press’s most acclaimed authors. Dawn will be in conversation with Kate Sidley. We hope to see you all there!
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Dear Poetry Lovers,
Please join us for an evening of poetry next to the fireplace with Sarah Frost, Chantal Stewart and Lucienne Argent.
Sarah, who recently published her second collection of poetry with Karavan Press – River Fugue – is based in Durban, but she is visiting Cape Town towards the end of the month, and we are using this wonderful opportunity to spend an evening in her company. Together with Chantal Stewart, author of the award-winning novel The Veil of Maya who will be publishing her debut poetry collection with Karavan Press later this year, Let’s Be Legends, and Lucienne Argent, whose debut, Self-Portrait of a Guava, has been warming reader’s hearts since its publication in December last year, Sarah will be in conversation with Karina M. Szczurek, and all three poets will read from their collections. We will have a lovely fire, snacks and wine will be served, and books will be on sale. Not to be missed!
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We look forward to seeing you on the 31st!
Please join us for an unforgettable evening of poetry and conversation at the beautiful Oude Leeskamer in Stellenbosch on Thursday, 20 February 2025, at 6PM.
Please join us for the second day of this year’s Festival of Poetry at Bertha House on Saturday, 9 November, between 11AM and 3.30PM. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Megan Hall and Shari Daya will be reading to us at 6 Spin Street on Wednesday, 28th August at 7 p.m.
Megan Hall won the Ingrid Jonker Prize for her poetry collection Fourth Child (Modjaji Books, 2007). Published in various journals since 1995, her work has been anthologised for schools (Worldscapes, 2005) and for university students (The New Century of South African Poetry, 2018), amongst others. She also writes short stories. She lives and works in Cape Town.
Shari Daya is a geographer and poet from Cape Town. Her poetry and essays explore the entangled geographies of lineage, memory, place and the body, and her work has appeared in the literary journals Obsidian, Stanzas, New Contrast and the anthologies Africa! My Africa! and I Wish I’d Said… Vol. 5, from the AVBOB Poetry Project. Shari completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Cape Town in 2023 and her debut collection of poetry and prose, Land | Lines, has been recently published by Karavan Press this year.
As always, the reading by the featured poet(s) will be followed by an open mic session for poets from the audience. Poets are welcome to read from their own work as well as from the work of a favourite poet.
Please note that 6 Spin Street offers a cash bar.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Date: Wednesday, 28th August 2024
Time: 19:00
Venue: 6 Spin Street Restaurant Gallery, 6 Spin Street, Church Square, Cape Town
We are very excited to welcome this extraordinary debut collection into the world: Land | Lines by Shari Daya. The first time Shari read from it before publication was at Salon Hecate during the Books on the Bay Festival earlier this year, and so it is only fitting to launch the actual book at Salon Hecate’s home, the wonderful Noordhoek Art Point Gallery, where all the arts meet and mingle, during the next Salon which will be taking place on Tuesday, 6 August.
Join us in a celebration of this exquisite poetry collection and the beauty of the space that is Noordhoek Art Point’s Salon Hecate!
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