Book Launch
Date: Wednesday 28 September 2022
Time: 18:30
Youngblood Gallery
70-74 Bree Street
Cape Town
Tickets @ R120 available at Quicket
About the Poet
Born in 1996 in South Africa, Zizipho is an award-winning poet who creates work that seeks to heal. Using the body and its experience as inspiration, she reimagines longing, loss, and love and turns her stories into works of art. “Sunflowers for my Lovers” is her first poetry collection.
Bam has participated in and won various slam competitions in her career including Word N Sound, Cuddle Sessions: Pillow Stages and Poetry Africa. Her poetry has graced online audiences in the United States of America, Sweden, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, and at home.
Bam holds the 2020 New Coin Prize for her poem “Learning to Swim” and the 2021 New Contrast National Poetry Prize for her poem “Silence in Church”.
“Bam is one of a growing body of South African poets who are able to create landscape poems out of visceral and vivid interior scenes.” - Kyle Allan, New Coin editor.
