Poetry by and with Stephen Symons: "For everything that is Pointless and Perfect"

Den sydafrikanske poeten Stephen Symons läser och diskuterar sina verk med Linus Gårdfeldt. Evenemanget hålls på engelska.

Stephen Symons has published poetry and short-fiction in journals, magazines and anthologies, locally and internationally. His debut collection, Questions for the Sea (uHlanga, 2016) received an honourable mention for the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, and was also shortlisted for the 2017 Ingrid Jonker Prize. His unpublished collection Spioenkop was a semi-finalist for the Hudson Prize for Poetry (USA) in 2015. His second collection, Landscapes of Light and Loss, (Dryad Press) was published in 2018, and third collection, FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS POINTLESS AND PERFECT (Karavan Press) in 2020. Small souls, a collection of collected and new poems will be published in 2022 by Karavan Press.

Symons holds a PhD in History (University of Pretoria) and an MA in Creative Writing (University of Cape Town). He lives with his family in Oranjezicht, Cape Town.

Moderator: Linus Gårdfeldt, adjunkt på Kau, lärare i Kreativt skrivande och själv poet

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• Jakob Harnesk
  E-post: jakob.harnesk@kau.se