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Poetry for the people. uHlanga is South Africa's progressive poetry press, publishing beautiful collections from our most exciting & established voices.

uHlanga is a small poetry press based in Cape Town, South Africa, committed to publishing new, experimental and classic works of Southern African poetry. Founded in 2014 as an annual magazine of poetry from KwaZulu-Natal, uHlanga now focuses on publishing full collections and curated anthologies.

04/07/2025

Good poetry, good company, and also – good wine.

We’re launching ‘Owele’ by Sihle Ntuli on these dates.

Save this post now & watch our upcoming stories for more deets 🌊

01/07/2025

We are proud to announce that launches today ☄️🌊

Sihle Ntuli, congratulations!

📌 Launches upcoming in Durban, Makhanda, Johannesburg and Cape Town – details to follow.

26/06/2025

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24/06/2025

“The word ‘bound’ makes up half of the title for a reason. I love my houseplants, and my plant poems, but there’s something to be said about how we are incapable of reigning in nature, even in language, especially in language.”

🪴 In this wide-ranging interview, we chat to debut poet, Manti Moila, about her poetry collection, ‘Rootbound’, the joys and limitations of language and the poets who influence and inspire her own work.

Swipe to read it! 🫛

Author 📸: Rae Ann Bochanyin

20/06/2025

Whether you’re a poetry zine maker or have self-published your collection, we’d love to feature your poems on uHlanga’s socials.

South Africa’s poetry landscape grows richer by the day, and we know that publishing comes in many shapes and forms. This is why we’d love to see what you’ve been up to in your own space and time, and celebrate the ingenuity and craft that goes into these creations.

📧 Email submissions to [email protected] for a chance to be featured!

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18/06/2025

“There were no page numbers, no poem titles, just brief pauses as Kobus Moolman’s steady voice carried the audience through the reading of his latest collection of poetry, Fall Risk. What last week’s event bore witness to was not a performance but an embodiment of the pain, beauty, and fragility of the human body.”

Lovely coverage of Kobus Moolman’s launch by Mmathabo Maebela and Relebohile Mohapi of Grocott’s Mail: https://grocotts.ru.ac.za/2025/04/14/the-fragility-of-a-resilient-body/

16/06/2025

“you can’t build a life
on rocks made of air”

A poem by Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal for Youth Day, from his upcoming collection, ‘a co**se is also a garden’. Happy Youth Day, Mzanzi 🇿🇦

13/06/2025

Honouring fathers 💛 A poem by Stephen Symons from his 2016 collection, Questions for the Sea.

11/06/2025

“When Nick Mulgrew founded uHlanga Press in 2014, he did not fathom that it would publish 40 poetry books in its first 10 years. This milestone was marked last month with an open online series of conversations with authors. Recently, Rhodes University graduate Mulgrew talked to Grocott’s Mail about publishing poetry in South Africa.”

Thank you to Mmathabo Maebela of Grocott’s Mail, for this wonderful interview.
https://grocotts.ru.ac.za/2025/05/12/uhlanga-celebrates-10-years-of-helping-new-writers-shine/

04/06/2025

“As we settled into the Amazwi amphitheatre, the chatter from audience and performers filled the autumn air. Deep baritone hums wafted through the crowds, setting the stage for what was to come.

A few moments later, MC Adam Levin welcomed the audience to the first poetry showcase hosted at Amazwi Museum in collaboration with the South African Poetry Projects (ZAPP), Poetry NonScenes, and the Rhodes University Department of Literary Studies in English. This showcase marked the end of a two-day poetry workshop aimed at encouraging young writers to tell their stories through their poetry.”

Thank you to Mmathabo Maebela, Relebohile Mohapi and Thubelihle Mathonsi of Grocott’s Mail for this article: https://grocotts.ru.ac.za/2025/04/30/fresh-poetry-zaps-in-with-new-power/

01/06/2025

uHlanga is proud to present ‘a co**se is also a garden’, the first English poetry collection by Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal 🌸🌾

“Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal is one of the leading young Afrikaans poets of his generation. In this, a self-translated selection of poems from his first two collections, readers in English get to experience Odendaal’s stunningly confident and self-deconstructing work for the first time.”

Odendaal’s understated, precise style exhibits a maturity beyond his years – whether he is reckoning with the hideous deeds of his ancestors, the tribulations of young love, or the various everyday beauties and horrors of modern South Africa.

These are poems that affirm our deepest and most profound connections, both with each other and our environments – the places that birth us, and the earth to which we all return.

🌿🫛 Available in August, you can read more about ‘a co**se is also a garden’ now: https://uhlangapress.co.za/pieter-madibuseng-odendaal-a-co**se-is-also-a-garden

29/05/2025

In 2014, uHlanga was born as a small poetry magazine from KwaZulu-Natal. There were too few places that celebrated South African poetry, especially that of writers just starting out.

We began publishing books in 2015. Ten years later, we’ve published both debut writers and established voices. We’ve seen our books win national and international prizes, live on in syllabuses, and be pressed into the hands of new readers who whisper, “This one changed me.”

We’ve spent a decade building a home for South African poetry that is bold, quiet, strange, familiar, brave and yes, beautiful.

To everyone who has submitted, published, read, stocked, reviewed, taught, shared, or loved an uHlanga book — thank you.

Here’s to ten years of poems. And to whatever comes next 📚

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