In a quiet moment on an otherwise ordinary afternoon, Modise Sekgothe found out he had been selected as only the second poet to win the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Poetry in its 40-year history.  “I was in the house writing,” he tells me when we speak at an event introducing this year’s winners […]

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If we read closely, spoken word still holds the realities of the past even though it is written in the present