Maneo Mohale - Open Book Festival 2024
2024 Panel Appearances: Up Close with Maneo; Queerness and the Divine; Navigating Religious Trauma
& Writersports
& Writersports
Repolla Reading Series, (Close)Reading & Ritual
What work can poetry do, in the endlessly genocidal present, and the burning after-now?
MIRROR POEM
Five-part ekphrastic poem responding to the work of Frances Goodman.
On Apocalypse
“The music is a riotous solemnity, a terrible beauty. It hurts so much that we have to celebrate.”—Fred Moten, Black and Blur: Consent not to be a Single Being
KB Brookins & Maneo Mohale: Dreaming of Freedom & Centring Trans Joy
KB Brookins talks with Maneo Mohale about their poetry collection Freedom House. They contemplate poetry, social justice, community, trans-ness & hope.
Maneo Mohale | Beg (Sestina for a Dom) (podcast)
In this interlude, poet and author of "Everything is A Deathly Flower", Maneo Mohale recites the poem "Beg", exploring sexual freedom, kink and desire.
Anthems: Maneo Mohale | PANIC (podcast)
#AnthemsPride 2023 is a collection of 7 original stories, written and voiced by exceptional LGBTQIA+ contributors and allies. Maneo’s word of the day is PANIC.
Semana Santa (Five Poems)
Portside Review’s tenth issue brings you alternative visions and intersectional lives nuanced with loving critique, all the way from South Africa.
'I wanted to place myself in conversation with the living and the dead’—Maneo Refiloe Mohale in conversation with Makhosazana Xaba
JRB Patron Makhosazana Xaba aims to correct the misdeeds of the past by engaging black women and non-binary poets seriously on their ideas and on their work.
Conjure a Ghost (Collaboration w/ Kirill Berezovski)
Conjure a Ghost, is a unique multidisciplinary collaboration across bodies, worlds, words and time. Using loose, poetic spoken-word fragments from a diary Maneo Mohale wrote in the early days of the COVID-19 global pandemic, dancer and choreographer Kirill Berezovski uses movement to interpret enunciated text, exploring the grey spaces between impulse, response and creation.
01. Maneo Mohale, The poet (Podcast)
"Increasingly, the longer that I'm here and the deeper I ask myself further and more ancestral questions about identity and sexuality and desire and kinship, the more those categories dissolve."
[NB4A] [Prose-Praise] [Good Boy]
"ok then: let the poem act as
a ribbon of sensation, mid-ravel, unravelling. stalling at first, ending as a coil, on its knees."
a ribbon of sensation, mid-ravel, unravelling. stalling at first, ending as a coil, on its knees."
Alexandra Speaks with Maneo Mohale (Interview)
Our literature Ambassador Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako spoke with Maneo Refiloe Mohale on April 30th at 11am Berlin time (CET), ahead of their appearance at the 2022 African Book Festival in Berlin.
All The Apostles are Black, All the Saints Queer, and All of Them Are Brave (Pt.2)
The VS podcast is a bi-weekly series where poets confront the ideas that move them. Hosted by poets Danez Smith and Franny Choi presented by the Poetry Foundation. Guest co-hosted with Kopano Maroga & Produced by Maia Macdonald.
Beg (Sestina for a domme)
"If I gave it to you, where would you tuck my tongue?"
All The Apostles are Black, All the Saints Queer, and All of Them Are Brave (Pt.1)
The VS podcast is a bi-weekly series where poets confront the ideas that move them. Hosted by poets Danez Smith and Franny Choi presented by the Poetry Foundation. Guest co-hosted with Kopano Maroga & Produced by Maia Macdonald.
Scaffold Profile & Interview
"Work that has changed my life is work that makes me feel possible. I think I want someone to pick up my work, and feel like they’re possible too."
Lunga Ntila - God Among Us
'What do we make then, of Ntila’s insistence that “we are god-like beings and that God can manifest in human form”? Who is the “we” signalled and spoken to, here? '
Silent Still, Singing Still (Review)
Review of Kopano Maroga & Maneo Mohale's debut collections, by Keely Shinners.
the names (poem)
Short poem written in response to Markers of Presence, an exhibition of colour photographs by David Goldblatt.
South African Maneo Mohale is Winner of the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry
"South African poet Maneo Mohale has received the 2021 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry for their collection Everything is a Deathly Flower. "
Mohale wins Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry
South African poet Maneo Refiloe Mohale has been named the winner of the African Poetry Book Fund’s 2020 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry.
Years of fire, year of ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation
Years of fire, year of ash: fifty years of protest poetry are brought together in one volume by literary critic and lecturer Dr Wamuwi Mbao.
Papaver Somniferum (Miss You)
Short poem, first read at The Red Wheelbarrow
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