Amazwi museum invites you to a meet and greet, book signing and launch of Kobus Moolman’s latest offering, Fall Risk. This poetry collection is for everyone, especially teachers and students in English, creative writing, drama, psychology, education, social workers and those in NGOs and CBOs that deal especially with disabilities. 

DATE    :  09 April 2025

TIME     :  5.30pm for 6pm

VENUE :  Amazwi, 25A Worcester Street, MAKHANDA

About the Book:

In this stark and breath-taking new sequence of poems, poet Kobus Moolman returns to a familiar theme, but with a new intensity. Disability and ill health lead to distress and confinement, but not silence. Here Moolman finds a way, through poetic and linguistic experimentation, to make sense of his mortal body, and to express what our bodies cannot say for themselves. Reaching back into our elemental beginnings, contemplating silent rock and running water, we find out something new about how we comprehend the inevitable processes of aging and ailing.

Genna Gardini says of this new collection that “Moolman writes about living, and living in a body, with sharp attention and great beauty. There are poems in this book that you will return to again and again.”

About the Author:

Kobus Moolman is Professor of Creative Writing and English Literature in the Department of English Studies at the University of Western Cape. He has been the Mellon Writer in Residence courtesy of ISEA at Rhodes University. He has published five previous collections of poetry, as well as several plays. He has also edited an anthology of poetry, prose and art by South African writers living with disabilities. He has been awarded the Ingrid Jonker Prize, the PANSA award for best drama, the DALRO poetry prize, the BBC African Theatre award and the South African Literary award for poetry. He was the editor of Fidelities literary journal from 1995 until 2007. Kobus Moolman lives in Riebeek West.