August 2024
June 2024
Poetry In McGregor Gathering 6 – 8 September 2024
Dani2024-06-13T16:31:27+02:00Dear friend of Poetry in McGregor, It is with regret that our committee has taken the decision not to mount a big festival this September. Due to the economic climate, companies and donors that have supported us in the past were unable to do so this year, and to frustrate matters more, our application [...]
July 2022
2022 Poetry competition
Dani2022-09-06T19:47:08+02:00Our theme this year is TOUCHING THE WILD – DIE WILDERNIS IN. This is an opportunity to consider, through poetry, our roles as custodians of wilderness and creation not to mention the need to nurture a certain inner wildness. Please see the competition rules and note that no poems over 36 lines will be [...]
July 2021
August 2019
2019 Patricia Schonstein Awards and Acclaims
Dani2019-08-26T17:05:47+02:00Each Festival is celebrated with its own dedicated anthology and is launched the following year. It contains the words of poets on the main programme and many from the open-mic sessions. The poems included in each anthology are eligible for an Award; and an Acclaim is bestowed on someone who has contributed to the [...]
July 2019
Poetry in McGregor 2019 Visual Poetry Programme with Gwen Meyer
Dani2019-07-12T11:16:13+02:00Poetry in McGregor 2019 Visual Poetry Programme (for a selected group of local children) Theme: The Heart of the Moon / Exploring the Poetry of Image Aims and Objectives: The heart of the moon - A photography workshop. In this workshop students will explore ideas of the visual language, in words and the image [...]
August 2018
WINNERS OF THE SOUND OF WATER POETRY COMPETITION
Dani2018-08-29T13:48:42+02:00IT GIVES US GREAT PLEASURE TO PUBLISH THE NAMES AND POEMS OF THE WINNERS OF OUR 2018 THE SOUND OF WATER POETRY COMPETITION: ADULT CATEGORY: Winner: Adriaan Havenga (Wat het met Ingrid Jonker gebeur) Runner-up: Sue Woodward (Drop in the ocean) Highly commended: Catherina Koen (Stilte) HIGH SCHOOL CATEGORY: Winner: Kyle Morero (Like a [...]
March 2018
The incredible HA!Man duo
Dani2018-03-04T13:19:53+02:00Poetry in McGregor hosted a very successful event in Temenos’ Caritas Library last night. The incredible HA!Man duo – Francois le Roux and Joke Debaere – gave a performance that was indescribably ‘different’ and enthralling. The response from the audience was “WOW!” “Absolutely beautiful and otherworldly in its inspiration’. [...]