In Pursuit of Poetic Perfection #IPoPP #MeetTheAuthors

In anticipation of this unique and historic Anthology I invite you all to #MeetTheAuthors of #IPoPP Selwyn Milborrow Selwyn Milborrow Selwyn Milborrow is a prize-winning author, freelance journalist, columnist, publisher and poet from Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He was a journalist for Die Burger and is an iReporter for CNN International. Selwyn’s work in both …

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EXISTENTIAL CONSEQUENTIAL

Photo Credit © Pixabay Existential Consequential (Read the original publication in Indiana Voice Journal HERE) Part One Baptised child of colour by a system saturated with colonial masked fodder, my existence manipulated although lovingly orchestrated to avoid a mother heinously hated my future mapped out by adult decree – to avoid an emotionally cancerous feuding …

Honoured to announce my debut Ekphrastic collaboration with internationally acclaimed cartoonist,artist,animator…Nanda Soobben

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You ¤ Huisgenoot

This one is a translation from my AFRIKAANS poem from 'Huisgenoot', an Afrikaans family magazine which then published an English version 'YOU' These magazines became my window to the world during the 1980's whilst South Africa was gripped in the school boycotts against the apartheid regime and I found myself unwillingly amidst army attacks on my …