The 28 year old Poetry Africa festival is one of the longest running contemporary poetry festivals on the African continent. Presented by the Centre for Creative Arts in the Schools of Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal the annual festival features poets from South Africa, the African continent and from other parts of the world. The festival will take place as a hybrid event with both online and live events spread across Durban, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein.

This year’s theme is Poetry: Somehow we survive, The theme is inspired by one of the poems by Denis Brutus, a leading South African poet, activist, educator and journalist. This year marks the centenary of his birth (28 November