Home is Where the Mic Is edited by Mandi Poefficient Vundla and Allan Kolski Horwitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horwitz, Allan Kolski, editor.

Vundla, Mandi Poefficient, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Black authors.

Poetry.

Black people in literature.

Black people--South Africa--Poetry.

Black people.

South Africa.

South Africa--Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

South African poetry (English) -- Black authors -- 21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Braamfontein : Botsotso, [2015]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This anthology presents the work of twenty-four young Spoken Word poets from South Africa, with a sprinkling of guests from the United States, Britain and Australia. The experience of black youth in societies polarized by racism, inequality and gender violence whilst, at the same time, struggling to come to terms with love, sex and all the other basic needs of young people makes for fascinating reading. The inventive graphic layout is a fine addition to a stand out volume. Home is Where the Mic Is was conceived as a collaboration with Word n Sound, a popular Johannesburg Spoken Word platform. The intention was to give hitherto only stage poets an opportunity to test their work on the page and confound the Eurocentric critics of the new wave of performance poetry who decry its energy and breaking down of artificial definitions of poetry. This is South African poetry standing on it's own two feet!

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Forewords

Contents

TUMELO KHOZA

Democracy

Whatever it means to you, I mean to you

Black Padded Bra

When You Dance

DIKSON

Cousins from the Past

Home

Carnival

I Stand

TERESKA RENE MUISHOND

Moonlight

Note to my sister

Something

MASAI DABULA

How can you expect me to go back to the shadows?

I am five

I sometimes slumber

MTHUNZIKAZI A MBUNGWANA

A Song for Dumile Feni

Thula' Ukhalelani?

Abantwana

NgumntaN 'omntu

SARAH CATERPILLARWINGS GODSELL

Building

In the middle of us

Smilesleep

Paris in the springtime

RICHARD QUAZ ROODT

Drugs kill fear

…and on the 5th day

A heart I broke

Jagged

YRSA DALEY WARD

Poetry

Sthandwa Sami

A Fine, Awful Art

I miss you

The Situation

THANDO FUZE

Our Citizens

Stalking Street Lights

Day and Night

MPHO KHOSI

Ek bedoel nie om te kla nie

Grandma Blues

We had a Plan

Daddy's Dance

Azania

VANGILE GANTSHO

LOVE WITHOUT CAUTION

At home, tonight

In his blue and white dots

MODISE SEKGOTHE

Cunnilingus

Guy Dance (Guidance)

Travellers

NTHABISENG JAHROSE JAFTA

Breastfeeding total sexiness

Pula pakeng tsa maoto

Tattooed lines

KURT LUDWIG SCHRODER

Secrets

Redemption for Rapists (This poem is a question, not an answer.)

VUYELWA MALULEKE

Big School

Black Girl Poem

Black Boys

My Mother Says

NoLIFE

Angels can only carry Angels (to Keamo)

Absurdity from 1994

Blood diamonds

I stand corrected

CLINT SMITH

Lessons from a Senegalese vendor

We are black boys in America

The woman you love will not be who you expect

LEX LAFOY

The Sun

Motherhood

Ambition

iainEWOKrobinson

Garden boy? Kitchen girl?

The Head, the Hat and the Heart

Blue Light Drop

Lying Iron Zion.

LUKA LESSON

Clouds for a Tablecloth

Coins of Language

DeJaVU TAFARI

My Peculiar Praise Song

Miscarried (For Ngoma)

In Defence of Poetry

Dear Secret Lover

ANDREW MANYIKA

Promises &amp

Shhhh

Consequence

AFURAKAN

Where were you?

Anthem for doomed poets

A blues for Madiba

MANDI POEFFICIENT VUNDLA

Musical Note to Kwaito

Writer's Prayer

Some men wear deadly smiles

Back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781990922053

1990922058

OCLC:

1124601659