Ours is not only a festival that
promotes spoken word poetry and storytelling alone. Maun International Poetry
Festival 2012 also aims at encouraging and promoting Batswana writers, both
established and upcoming. We are for all literary arts, written and spoken. In
an endeavour to uplift our own writers, there will be eight titles from
Batswana writers on sale during the festival in May 26th, Maun
Lodge, Maun, Botswana. Courtesy of Pentagon Publishers, Poetavango will be selling
the following books at our long awaited festival. If you ever thought Botswana
doesn’t have writers, think again
.
1. The
Moon has Eyes and Other Stories by Legodile Seganabeng and other writers
2. Travelling
to the Sun: The Diary of Ruth by Tshetsana Senau
3. Curse
of a Dream by
Phidson Mojoreki
4. Born
With a Husband
by Khonani Ontebetse
5. The
Solar Heater
and Other Stories by Lauri
Kubuitsile and other writers
6. Which
Doctor and Other Stories
by Bontekanye Botumile and other writers
7. Putting
On Faces and Other Stories
by Gothataone Moeng and other writers
8. Words on the Ways of the World by Goodwill Tlokwe
Think about it. Isn’t it worth it? To have a Motswana writer
in your collection of books? We think it is! Again, lets promote the culture of
reading and cast away the cliché that Batswana don’t read.
