Enjoy festival poetry reading

IF YOU can get to Grahamstown, and you love poetry, don't miss the Ecca poetry reading tomorrow at 12.30 in Seminar Room 2, Eden Grove Building, off Lucas Avenue, on Rhodes Campus.

The event is part of Wordfest, the literary segment of the National Arts Festival that runs a stimulating programme each year.

Ecca is an informal group of poets mainly from the Eastern Cape, who get together to work on poetry projects.

They have been active for the past 24 years, and will be reading from their latest book, This Questioning Terrain.

Cathal Lagan, Norman Morrissey, Brian Walter, Alvené du Plessis and Silke Heiss will read from the publication – their 17th volume of poetry.

The poem Tracks by Morrissey gives a flavour of what to expect:

Through caverns of nightmare, chapels of dream

– walking windings of shore and scarpland

– soul wanders its way,

its tracks

linger

as poems.

There is also an open microphone session hosted by Morrissey and Walter at 3.30pm tomorrow at the Launch Pad, Eden Grove.

Entry is free and copies of the book sell for R80.