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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Tonight in BBC Radio 4’s Illuminated, the poet Jack Underwood offers his services as a metaphor consultant, for a very reasonable fee. Listen to The Metaphor Consultant in the Illuminated podcast Produced by Eleanor McDowall www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

In Time, Paper, Bone @bonganikona.bsky.social presented an intimate portrait of one woman’s quest for closure and South Africa’s long reckoning with the injustices of the past. The result of years of work by producers @catherineboulle.bsky.social & Bongani Kona www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Bongani Kona @bonganikona.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

DIPALO: a mixtape for those who practice counting www.mixcloud.com/chimurenga/n...

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Neo Muyanga - Dipalo: A Mixtape For Those Who Practice Counting

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pensouthafrica.bsky.social @pensouthafrica.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Please join us this Thursday at 17.00 SAST for the last event in our ‘Writing in Troubled Times’ series. We will be in conversation with Tetyana Teren about Victoria Amelina’s posthumously published work, Looking at Women Looking at War. As always, RSVP at pensouthafrica@proton.me for the Zoom link.

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pensouthafrica.bsky.social @pensouthafrica.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Please join us this Thursday at 17:00 SAST for the penultimate instalment of our ‘Writing in Troubled Times’ series. This week we’ll be engaging with several contributors to Literary Sudans, an anthology edited by Bhakti Shringarpure. As always, RSVP for the Zoom link at pensouthafrica@proton.me

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pensouthafrica.bsky.social @pensouthafrica.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Please join us this coming Thursday at 17:00 SAST for our next instalment of our ‘Writing in Troubled Times’ series. Contributors to the anthology Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War - edited by Bhakti Shringarpure - will be reading their work. RSVP for the Zoom link at pensouthafrica@proton.me

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pensouthafrica.bsky.social @pensouthafrica.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The Jakes Gerwel Foundation presents the Brussels tot Karoo residency for Flemish and South African writers. The goal is to grant writers 3 weeks of uninterrupted time to work on a manuscript - in any genre. Please email theo@jgf.org.za for more information, or apply at the link shown in the poster.

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pensouthafrica.bsky.social @pensouthafrica.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

youtu.be/RXXTXQwMdew Click the link to watch the preview of The Art of Exile, which we are screening at Bertha House this coming Wednesday at 17.00. As always, please RSVP at pensouthafrica@proton.me to secure your place. Entrance is free!

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The Art Of Exile Trailer with open captions

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pensouthafrica.bsky.social @pensouthafrica.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Please join us virtually this Thursday for a conversation with Athol Williams! RSVP at pensouthafrica@proton.me for the Zoom link.

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pensouthafrica.bsky.social @pensouthafrica.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Please join us this coming Tuesday at 17:00 SAST for the second instalment of our Writing in Troubled Times series! C.A. Davids will be in conversation with Nathi Ngubane ahout his educational colouring books, From the River to the Sea and Malcolm X in Gaza. RSVP: pensouthafrica@proton.me

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Catherine Boulle @catherineboulle.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Some stories take a long, long time - to unfold, to be told, and to find a home. This was one of them. Time, Paper, Bone, made with the brilliant @bonganikona.bsky.social, is now out in its full and final form, on BBC Radio 4 💫 🎧 Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g2nf

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BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Time, Paper, Bone

The story of anti-apartheid activist James Booi's disappearance and reburial.

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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Based on four years of fieldwork by collaborators @bonganikona.bsky.social and @catherineboulle.bsky.social, ‘Time, Paper, Bone’ is an intimate portrait of one woman’s lifelong quest for closure, and South Africa’s long reckoning with the injustices of the past. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Bongani Kona @bonganikona.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

My dear friend, Catherine Boulle, and I have travelled a long journey with this piece and we are glad that it’s finally out in the world. Please feel free to give it a listen here: ❤️

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Bongani Kona @bonganikona.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

John Murillo Reads "Practicing Fade-Aways" in "Up Jump the Boogie" (Cypher Books, 2010) ❤️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNbfI9LBfE0

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Fellow John Murillo Reads "Practicing Fade-Aways" in "Up Jump the Boogie" (Cypher Books, 2010)

YouTube video by Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown

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