• Maneo Mohale | Beg (Sestina for a Dom)

  • Jul 8 2023
  • Length: 3 mins
  • Podcast

Maneo Mohale | Beg (Sestina for a Dom)

  • Summary

  • In this interlude, poet and author of "Everything is A Deathly Flower", Maneo Mohale recites the poem "Beg", exploring sexual freedom, kink and desire.

    Maneo Refiloe Mohale is a South African editor, feminist writer and poet. Their work has appeared in various local and international publications, including Jalada, Prufrock, The Beautiful Project, The Mail & Guardian, spectrum.za, and others. They’ve served as a contributing editor for The New York Times and i-D, among others. They were Bitch Media’s first Global Feminism Writing Fellow in their inaugural 2016 class, where they wrote on race, media, sexuality and survivorship. They have been long-listed twice for the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology Award, and their debut collection of poetry, Everything is a Deathly Flower was published with uHlanga Press in September 2019. In 2020, they were shortlisted for the Ingrid Jonker Poetry Prize, the youngest finalist of that year.

    In 2021, Everything is a Deathly Flower won the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry.

    Lookout for Maneo's full episode later in the podcast.

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