Stanzas poetry magazine

based in
Cape Town
South Africa
An open space where poetry matters

"A literary culture requires reaffirming and renewing by each generation as it gathers in the inheritance of the past and weaves it into a future."

CJ ‘Jonty’ Driver

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EDITORIAL editor@stanzaspoetry.org
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Some poets who have appeared in Stanzas

Akwe Amosu, Claire Anderson, PR Anderson, Caroline Archer, Ian Bell, Michèle Betty, Mignonne Breier, Godess Bvukutwa, Deirdre Byrne, Rachel Chitofu, Christine Coates, Michael Cope, David Copeland, Lise Day, Ingrid de Kok, Gail Dendy, Stephen Devereux, Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, Isobel Dixon, CJ Driver (1939–2023), Graham Dukas, Basil du Toit, Keith Edwards, John Eppel, Gus Ferguson (1940–2020), Diana Ferrus (1953–2026), Jane Fox, Justin Fox, Gaireyah Fredericks, Matthew Freemantle, Sarah Frost, Patricia Furstenberg, Elisa Galgut, Dawn Garisch, Nina Geraghty, Kevin Goddard, Keith Gottschalk, Anne Graaff, Geoffrey Haresnape, Hanta Henning, Juli Jana, Eustacia Jirivenga, Aryan Kaganoff, Iván Kovács, Zolani Kupe, Carol Leff, Moira Lovell (1951–2025), Zama Madinana, Retshepisitswe Makhatha, Phelelani Makhanya, Chris Mann (1948–2021), Botsana Maphanga, Adré Marshall, Peter Merrington (1956–2025), Helen Moffett, Manthipe Moila, Kgomotso Moloto, Kobus Moolman, Nondwe Mpuma, Sabu Msibi, Lethokuhle Msimang, Kwenzakwenkosi Mtshali, David Muirhead, Nick Mulgrew, Medzani Musandiwa, Sihle Ntuli, BD Olivier, Harry Owen, Tayla Paige, Stuart Payne, Shirley Pendelbury, Lethube Hellen Phaladi, Simon Rees-Roberts, Danya Ristić-Schacherl, Arja Salafranca, Alice Sarembock, Teamhw SbonguJesu, Patricia Schonstein, Dimakatso Sedite, Douglas Reid Skinner, Annette Snyckers, Melissa Sussens, Archie Swanson, Stephen Symons, Winifred Thomson (1939–2022), Elizabeth Trew, Tony Voss, Tony Ullyat (1943–2025), Brian Walter, Jean Watermeyer, Robin Winckel-Mellish, Sue Woodward, Wendy Woodward, Athol Williams, Stephen Wrigley, Fiona Zerbst

In translation

Tito Balestra, Charles Baudelaire, Boerneef, Bertolt Brecht, Breyten Breytenbach, Dino Buzzati, Catullus, Paul Celan, Paul Claudel, Mia Couto, Johann de Lange, Gérard de Nerval, Clinton du Plessis, Marco Fazzini, Jean Follain, Joan Hambidge, Homer, Horace, Daniel Hugo, Attila József, Lynthia Julius, Klaus Kinski, Olga Kirsch, Anna Cascella Luciani, Valerio Magrelli, Johann Lodewyk Marais, Chiara Marchesini, Pablo Neruda, DJ Opperman, Fernando Pessoa, Sextus Propertius, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ina Rousseau, Barend Toerien, Elmarie Viljoen-Massyn, Virgil, José Wattanabe