Serurubele

<p><em>I offer you my perspectives my many mothers’ teachings.<br />I present both hopelessness and moments that excite the taxi mgosi that makes me write.</em></p><p>Johannesburg performance-poet Katleho Kano Shoro puts her stage presence into print with this metapoetic debut collection that captures the cadences of her fearless voice her unassuming sense of humour and her enthusiasm for an Afrocentric literary culture. Katleho reflects on creativity on the writing reading and performance of poetry exploring the language that structures it the forces that inspire it and the transformation that follows our experience of it. From there her words wander through personal relationships and politics articulating ideas about masculinity sexuality blackness colonialism and our connections to those we love. Crafted with both the spoken and written word in mind Serurubele invites you not only to read poetry but to voice it to taste the language as it flows from your tongue to feel its rhythms and to hear its rhyme. Katleho has performed in Johannesburg Cape Town Grahamstown Swaziland and London and has been involved in myriad African literary initiatives. Recordings of her readings can be found online.</p>