Award-winning poet and playwright, Kobus
Moolman, will present a reading from his latest collection of poetry, Left Over (Dye Hard Press), at the next
Rendezvous of the Live Poets Society (LiPS) on June 4, 2014. This will take
place at a new venue for the society – the aptly-titled A Novel Idea in
Westville.
Left
Over, Kobus’ sixth collection of poems, and
acknowledged widely as his strongest to date, describes the inner world of a
man dealing with what the poet calls “being in the flesh, being a body in the
world”. Sparse but dense, the prose-like poetry is arresting in its intensity
and power. As poet and critic Kelwyn Sole comments, “Kobus Moolman’s
elliptical, foreshortened poetry opens up a world of exploration and heightened
experience from which the reader eventually emerges, chastened but delighted. These
are poems of acumen, depth and extraordinary pressure.”
Kobus, who teaches Creative Writing at the
University of KwaZulu-Natal, has won numerous awards including the Ingrid
Jonker Prize, the DALRO poetry prize, the BBC African Theatre award, the South African
Literary Award for poetry, and most recently the Sol Plaatje European Union
poetry award. In 2013, he was the Mellon Writer in Residence for three months
in Grahamstown, courtesy of Rhodes University.
The LiPS Rendezvous takes place at 18h30
for 19h00 on June 4 at A Novel Idea, 157 Blair Athol Road, Westville North (next
door to the vet). Admission is free. For more information contact LiPS Convenor
Danny Naicker on 083 282 0865 or email danny.naicker@NDEngineering.co.za
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