On March 21, World Poetry Day is celebrated across the globe, with the aim according to UNESCO ‘of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard’. It’s also Human Rights Day in South Africa and the day on which the day on which Yesterdays and Imagining Realities: An Anthology of SA Poetry is to be launched at the Time of the Writer Festival.
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Book Stories People is a podcast for people with an appetite for the story behind the story. Whether a book, a play, a movie, poem, song, a blog – or even a tweet, there’s always a back story – more to it than meets the eye. Or the ear. And that’s often where the gold lies. So that’s what I hope to bring you on BSP, the less well-trumpeted tales, the inside intel – from wordsmiths of all disciplines – known, unknown celebrity or completely unheard of. And who am I? You might well ask. Just an independent journalist from the tip of Africa with an appetite for stories that matches your own. Nancy Richards, yours in stories.
In this Lupus Awareness month of May, a young woman describes in a book called Crazy Became Me, how this unpredictable disease took hold of her life. Lupus (meaning wolf) is so called because centuries ago it was said the rash looks like a wolf bite.
A clinical psychologist shares his journey of caring for his dying mother and takes a look at the ‘invisibilisation’ of the caring profession.
It’s World Book Day on April 23, but if Lesley Beake had her way, it would be Children’s Book Day every day. A teacher and author of over 90 books herself, she talks about how to write, especially for children.
For a Cape Town artist, inspiration has sprung from the ground beneath his feet. For him the Cape Flats Sand Fynbos represents so much more than a bunch of flowers.
