LIPS RENDEZVOUS

The next LiPS Rendezvous (meeting of the Live Poets Society) will take place on March 2 when Kobus Moolman, an old standing patron of LiPS, will be joining forces as the Guest Poet.

An award-winning poet and playwright, educator and editor, Kobus Moolman teaches creative writing in the Department of English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. He is regarded as one of South Africa’s leading lyrical poets. He has published six collections of poetry: Time like Stone (which received the 2001 Ingrid Jonker Prize for a debut collection), Feet of the Sky, 5 Poetry, Separating the Seas, Anatomy and Light and After.

His award-winning play, Full Circle, premiered at the National Arts Festival in 2005 and had a successful run at the Market Theatre, before being produced at the Oval House Theatre in London, and in the United States. The play was published in 2007 by dyehard press. Kobus has also published a collection of his radio plays, Blind Voices, featuring a CD of the BBC production of his play, Soldier Boy.

His recent play, Stone Angel, was the joint winner of the 2007 Performing Arts Network of South Africa Festival of New Writing. This is the second time he has won this award. He was the editor of the literary journal, Fidelities, from 1995 until 2007. His poem Anatomy recently won the Dalro Prize for the best poem to appear in New Coin magazine in 2008.

In 2010 he edited and published, Tilling the Hard Soil: poetry, prose and art by South African Writers with Disabilities (UKZN Press). Recently he received the 2010 South African Literary Award for Poetry from the national Department of Arts and Culture for his collection, Separating the Seas.

Kobus has conducted readings and writing workshops around the country, and is an inspiring and gifted teacher. He will read from his latest published anthology of poems titled Light and After which has received rave reviews.

The LiPS Rendezvous will take place at the Point Yacht Club, Victoria Embankment on March 2 at 17h30 for 18h00. Admission is free.