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LEO BOIX, ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review Night Stage, Two Women, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, and Fuze
The Ensouled
by Kevin Scheepers
KATHRYN JOHNSON recommends the work of Norman Kaplan that was a tool in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes a bold feminist subversion of classic folktales that are ubiquitous in the Irish imagination
A novel by Mexican Juan Pablo Villalobos, poetry by Mexican Ingrid Bringas, and a biography by Argentinian Mercedes Halfon
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an entertaining dramatisation of the famous dispute that gives insight into the struggle, and Murdoch’s unscrupulous mendacity
ELLIS RAE is disappointed by the revival of a nihilistic play that fails to offer alternatives for social change
We need to know our Afrika intimately, even while we tune into the world at large.
Es’kia Mphahlele
Fanon on the master-slave dialectic,
Not counting on history to absolve me.
Tribal dissension from European designer labels,
Military junta livestreamed the coup d’etat—
Oh these steep imperial interests!
White saviours and white phosphorus,
Planted the parcel bomb at the charity match.
Heart deposed a treatise on how they treat us,
Tears painted self-portraits of wide nostrils.
Autopoietic poets kept dogma on a tight leash,
The ensouled emit light he bellowed,
The ensouled emit light!
Born in 1997, Kevin Daniel Scheepers is a black coloured man from Pretoria, South Africa. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and his work has previously appeared in Brittle Paper, Emergent Literary, South Africa Poetry Magazine, Aorta Literary Magazine and elsewhere.
Poetry submissions to thursdaypoems@gmail.com.
