Koleka Putuma is doing the damn thing in the poetry circles, when has your fave ever done a poetry book tour? Ever? Exactly. Putuma is hosting book launches all over South Africa, and she will be ...

The front cover of Koleka Putuma’s debut poetry anthology, Collective Amnesia, reveals itself in layers. At first glance, it is a black-and-white image: a barefoot black woman, dressed in black and ...

In the astounding anthology that is Koleka Putuma’s Collective Amnesia, the poem No Easter Sunday For Queers stands out as the centrepiece. It’s a tone-setting jump-off point for conversations that ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Arms outstretched and eyes locked on her audience, Koleka Putuma is a big stage presence for a young woman barely 5 feet tall. Her voice is velvet. But her words cut like a ...

Koleka Putuma is an award winning performance poet and theatre maker. She has published several plays and an anthology under publishing houses like uHlanga Press. On 6 October she announced finalising ...

It is in light of this evolution that they have appointed award-winning poet and performer Koleka Putuma as theatre producer. Cirque du Soleil for the intellect As Design Indaba founder Ravi Naidoo ...

Hot Key Books has acquired a “groundbreaking” poetry collection for young people from South African award-winning poet and playwright Koleka Putuma. Commissioning editor Ella Whiddett bought world ...

Koleka Putuma took South Africa, and a large chunk of the globe, by storm with her poem "Water". She's a poet, playwright, director and many other things, and has an astonishing number of accolades ...

Putuma won for her play No Easter Sunday for Queers, which will be produced by the Imbewu Trust at a venue in Cape Town. The other finalists are Ben Abbott for Dissolved, CJ de Beer for Balcony ...

In the following video, South African slam poet Koleka Putuma delivers a powerful recitation of the poem she authored, entitled, “Love Letter to Africa". Putuma uses the medium of spoken word to ...