Experience the raw power of poetry in the throat, in the moment, at a microphone, under competitive conditions. What's claimed to be SA's leading, longest-running Poetry Slam, in the Bekgeveg format, now comes to Wits. Two teams of three poets each compete in a Bekgeveg, under the infamously unfair “referee” Demos “Mal Kafee-Griek” Takoulas.
The Wits Poetry Slam teams include top poets Veronique Tadjo (multi-award-winning Francophone African author from the Ivory Coast); Comrade Fatso (electrifying Zimbabwean Toyi Toyi poet/political activist/musician); Johannes van Jerusalem (controversial Boere-poet, anthologised in Die Groot Verseboek, author of Eros Ontbind); Lesego Rampolokeng (veteran SA revolutionary poet, author of The Bavino Sermons and Whiteheart); Iscamtho language-mixing iconoclast Ike Mboneni Muila; and Gail Dendy, who has published six volumes of the finest poetry, the latest being The Lady Missionary.
Come and join this exciting literary boxing match, pitting poets against each other in competing volleys of verse on Wednesday, 23 September 2009 at 7 for 7.30pm in the Wits Downstairs Theatre, moderated and co-hosted by Leon de Kock.
Tickets available from www.strictlytickets.com or at the door.
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