Phillippa Yaa de Villiers

Beyond Words was a tour that brought four SA poets together to recite new work and share ideas and inspiration with poets from the UK. Travelling across 5 cities, the tour performed in Newcastle, London, Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham. This Saturday, 12 December, Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile, National Poet Laureate (Order of Ikhamanga), Lebo Mashile, TV personality, poet and winner of the Noma Award for publishing in Africa, and writer and performer Phillippa Yaa de Villiers.

The tour, produced by Sustained Theatre and Apples and Snakes, and supported by the UK Arts Council, the British Council and the Department of Arts and Culture, brought poets together in a series of performances, master classes and workshops and also published a chapbook of new poems by Keorapetse Kgositsile, Don Mattera, Lebo Mashile and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers.

The flyer for the Birmingham performance