{Poem} We Have Lost
I started writing this at the peak of the third wave in 2021, when everyday brought with it the name of someone no longer with us. We have lost My mother writes the names of everyone who's passed on since [...]
Last Year, This Time
I've been trying to write a poem about my aunt, my father's sister, who passed way on July 21st, 2019.
ZIKR wins 2020 Ingrid Jonker Prize
Press Release Ingrid Jonker Prize 2020 goes to a poignant collection of poems distinguished by a photographer’s instinct The winner of the Ingrid Jonker Prize for a debut volume of poetry in English published in 2018 and 2019 has been [...]
Publishing News: ZIKR is here
ZIKR is my debut poetry collection, published by uHlanga Press. This work has had a long gestation and incorporates poems founded during my Masters in Creative Writing programme at Rhodes, as well as more recent work. It should be out [...]
The Sunday Poem June 12, 2016 at 10:41PM
165/366 Pomegranate arils lit with #lumecube I wrote a poem about pomegranates once.
The Sunday Poem December 27, 2015 at 07:32PM
‘3 Places Old Poets Go To Die’. Ons Klyntji. August 2014. p.66
The Sunday Poem December 06, 2015 at 11:01AM
Growing bones’. Saaleha Bamjee, Poetry Potion. Issue 04. p.21. 2012
The Sunday Poem November 29, 2015 at 09:29PM
#thesundaypoem Ons Klyntji, August 2014.
The Sunday Poem: October 25, 2015
'God', Saaleha Bamjee, NEW COIN South African Poetry, June 2013, Vol 49, No 1