CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Perennial words of Don Mattera (March – June 2021)
Submission deadline: 25 May 2021 One of South Africa’s influential poets is Donato Fransisco Mattera. Mattera’s work is perennial,…
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Myth-making, ditshomo & African wisdom in Vuzamazulu Credo Mutwa’s writing – BKO Mag Jan – March 2021
Background Submission deadline: 5 March 2021 Cover image by artwork “Vusamazulu” – © Sindiso Nyoni One of the most…
BKO Poetry & Literature Mag: 2021 Line-up
BKO Poetry & Literature Magazine announces its 4 issue instalment for 2021. After a grueling 2020, we hope…
A woman’s worth in jazz
Her Own Skin The impression of a young woman who is only in her early twenties decreeing that…
Truth is in the vomit.
I’m stuck on a typewriter Literary critic! I’m not the right (write) type I brew a storm in…
Word for Ramps – for Lesego Rampolokeng
Deep beneath Revolutions are staged Tears fall And blood spills Eardrums burst And ghosts appear In re-lived reincarnations…
Horns for Hondo at 30: Introduction in Three Fragments
In his review of Lesego Rampolokeng’s Bantu Ghost (2009), “Post-Freedom Dreams and Nightmares”, reprinted in this special issue,…
BKO Magazine No 3 Vol 4 – Special Edition: Lesego Rampolokeng (Download)
“In his review of Lesego Rampolokeng’s Bantu Ghost (2009), “Post-Freedom Dreams and Nightmares”, reprinted in this special issue,…
‘It takes a ripple to make a storm’: A reflection on Lesego Rampolokeng’s poetry
To listen to Lesego Rampolokeng’s poetry is to experience the blunt brutality of the truth, beautiful pain of…
NEW RELEASE: BKO Magazine – Special edition: Lesego Rampolokeng
Curated by scholar and academic, Dr Danyela Dimakatso Demir, BKO Special Edition: Lesego Rampolokeng is coming out on…