Conversation with South African Poets - 5: Esethu Enkosi
I've been working my way slowly through ModPo , a fantastic course in modern and contemporary American poetry from UPenn. The final sections are about chance and unoriginality in contemporary poetry, so a poem by Esethu Enkosi on Poetry Potion, titled Sunday Times , caught my eye. She seems to have taken the questions from a poetry textbook. There are some prize lines, e.g. "Who is the author of this poem?" and the last one, "Describe the scene the poet avoids conveying so literally in this poem. " Her title is a little mysterious to me, but I've taken it and her method as inspiration, looking for material to the news app on my phone. I've used the headlines, so the result is I suppose mainly reflective of what's in journalists' minds: Google News - 30 March 2021 a poem 'by' Jean Watermeyer, after Esethu Enkosi I ANC NEC decides that members charged with corruption should step aside within 30 days The state of ANC top leadership Ace M