SUNFLOWERS FOR MY LOVERS | POEMS | ZIZIPHO BAM |BOOK LAUNCH

Join us as we explore Zizipho's self-publishing and storytelling journey at the book launch of her debut poetry collection, “Sunflowers for my lovers”. An exhibition of Bam’s passion for writing and art encapsulated in one evening.

The collection will be for sale at R200 each as well as the prints from the book.

Wednesday, 28 September 2022

18:30 for 19:00

Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town

The restaurant will be open for dinner before the show, cash bar.

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