Author: The Coinage Team
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ABOUT: Raphael d’Abdon
Dr Raphael d’Abdon is a writer, scholar, editor and translator. He holds an MA in Arts from the University of Uppsala (Sweden) and a PhD in Linguistics and Literary Studies from the University of Udine (Italy), and is currently a lecturer at the English Studies Department of UNISA. He has read his poetry in Italy,…
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ABOUT: Robyn-Jade Hosking
Robyn-Jade Hosking was born in 1991 in Fish Hoek, a sleepy seaside suburb nestled in the Cape Peninsula, but spent most of her childhood and teenage years surrounded by the lush forests of Knysna after relocating to the Garden Route. She has since moved back to Cape Town and currently manages an art gallery in…
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ABOUT: Dominic Pretorius
Dominic’s What Our Father Did is an extract from a novel-in-progress. The piece, being the opening of the novel, is an introduction to the character of Michael, a student living in contemporary Cape Town. His father left when he was a child and nobody ever explained to him why. The novel traces his learning this…
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Chat with Thabie
Short background about yourself. I was born on the 15th of January 1994 in Mafikeng (North West), spent my first two years of life in Pretoria. In 1997, we moved to the City of Roses, Bloemfontein, and I have been living there ever since. I went to Eunice Primary and High…
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ABOUT: Wanda Verster
Wanda Verster is an architect, an academic and a writer (in training). She lives in Bloemfontein and is deeply connected to this strange central town that tries to be a city. She developed a love for stories through the influence of her Grandparents, who loved history, her mother who read to her from an early…
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ABOUT: Khalida Moosa
Khalida is a stay-at-home mom who has little inclination for cooking, sewing or baking. She is a wordsmith and loves the musicality and rhythm of the written word. She is also an avid reader and enjoys sharing good reads. Khalida currently hosts a community book club in the South of Johannesburg. Her poem was inspired…
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ABOUT: Kgetsa Mamabolo
Kgetsa is a talented, gifted, versatile and multilingual artist who enjoys the ability to capture the hearts of his audience through poetry. He has an electrifying stage performance of the highest standard. He normally performs at corporate events, offering poetry on a range of topics to suit the audience. Kgetsa is a member Penpals Poets,…
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ABOUT: Indigene Corefio
Indigene is no stranger to the love of word, having fallen in love with poetry from her formative years when she found refuge and therapy in writing and the expression it afforded her. Her writing spans across the universal themes of love, existential angst, divine bliss, esoteric consciousness, social challenges, sexuality, and feminism. In 2005,…