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This is a list of noted South African poets, poets born or raised in South Africa, whether living there or overseas, and writing in one of the South African languages This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The genre of performance poetry in present-day South Africa, encompassing the "pop culture" form of the spoken word, evidently has its roots in the indigenous praise poetry traditions of izibongo or lithoko as well as the combined influence of protest poets of the 1970s through to the 1990s, who often collaborated with or were musicians ...
Breyten Breytenbach (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈbrɛitən ˈbrɛɪtənbaχ]; 16 September 1939 – 24 November 2024) was a South African writer, poet, and painter.He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid, and as a political prisoner of the National Party–led South African Government.
South African poets by century (3 C) + South African LGBT poets (8 P) South African male poets (79 P) South African women poets (56 P) S.
Bessie Head (1937–1986), born in South Africa, mainly in Botswana; Cat Hellisen (born 1977) Manu Herbstein (born 1936) Christopher Hope (born 1944) Emma Huismans (born 1947) Robin Hyde (1906–1939), born in South Africa, living in New Zealand writer; Mhlobo Jadezweni (born 1954) Karen Jennings (author) (born 1982) Ingrid Jonker (1933–1965)
"profuse, fluent, versatile" and "the foremost South African poet of his generation." – The Daily Telegraph "It is a creative paradox that we owe to a deaf man some of the most striking images of sound in contemporary English poetry." – Geoffrey Hill, 1980
Keorapetse William Kgositsile OIS (19 September 1938 – 3 January 2018), also known by his pen name Bra Willie, was a South African Tswana poet, journalist and political activist. An influential member of the African National Congress in the 1960s and 1970s, he was inaugurated as South Africa's National Poet Laureate in 2006. [1]
Poetry portal; South Africa portal; Pages in category "South African male poets" The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 total.