Publisher: uHlanga, South Africa
This debut collection by Musawenkosi Khanyil won the South African Literary Award for Poetry in English in 2020. The book was also a finalist for this year’s Ingrid Jonker Prize.
In his moving debut collection, Musawenkosi
Khanyile speaks for the heartache, perseverance and untriumphant triumph
of township life. Through snapshots and memories of family and
community, centred around the boy- and young manhood of a single
narrator, All The Places is a rare and compelling poetic
Bildungsroman, with the ambition and scope of a novel, paired with (and
pared down to) minimalist and clear-eyed verse.
Concurrently
original and quintessentially South African, these poems mark Khanyile
out as a skilled stylist and storyteller – a frank and important new
voice in South African literature.
£17.00
About the author
Musawenkosi Khanyile was born in 1991 and raised in Nseleni. He holds a
Masters in Clinical Psychology from the University of Zululand, and a
Masters in Creative Writing from the University of the Western Cape. His
first published poems appeared in an uHlanga magazine released in 2014.
He currently lives in Cape Town. This is his first book.
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