Join us for a special Writer’s Evening featuring Simon van Schalkwyk in conversation with Eckard Smuts of Stellenbosch University’s English Department, as they discuss van Schalkwyk’s latest poetry collection, Zero Summer.

A poet and scholar based in the Department of English Studies at Wits University, van Schalkwyk has served as Head of Department, co-editor of Safundi, and academic editor of the Johannesburg Review of Books. His acclaimed debut collection, Transcontinental Delay (Dryad Press, 2021), was a finalist for the National Institute for the Humanities & Social Sciences Awards, and he is the recipient of the Philip Stein Award for Poetry. Don’t miss this stellar evening of poetry, presented in collaboration with Dryad Press.

Language: English 

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