Eleven winners of the 2023 AVBOB Poetry Competition (one for each of South Africa's official languages) were announced at a sparkling gala award ceremony at Pretoria Country Club on Wednesday evening, ...

The 11 winners of the 2024 AVBOB Poetry Competition, representing each of South Africa’s official written languages, were celebrated in grand style at the AVBOB Poetry gala dinner on September 18 at ...

South Africans from all walks of life are invited to express their finest words of love and hope, courage, and consolation. The best entries in each language category will be published in the Avbob ...

Since 2017, the competition has received over 80 000 poems from 18 000 poets. Some of these are available for the public to read at Avbob's free online library. This year's winners received a R10 000 ...

This year’s 11 winners of the annual Avbob Poetry Competition, representing each of South Africa’s official written languages, were announced at a gala event in Pretoria last week. “Poetry offers ...

You may not have known Monday was Global Tourism Resilience Day, but there was one category of people who were keenly aware: the poets who write about their travels. The Avbob Poetry Project chose the ...

[SPONSORED] From ages 10 to 97, South African poets are having their say! “This is a healthy sign, and the AVBOB Poetry Project is proud to have created a platform like no other,” said AVBOB CEO, Carl ...

The AVBOB Poetry Competition will return for its ninth year on 1 August 2025. The competition encourages South Africans, young and old, to put pen to paper and share words of love, hope, and healing.

Poetry’s roots in Africa as an oral tradition date back thousands of years, and, to this day, it continues to provide a space for expression and healing. In South Africa, praise poets are cultural ...