SUNFLOWERS FOR MY LOVERS, poems

83pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2022

Born in 1996, Zizipho Bam is a poet, copywriter, and visual storyteller based in Cape Town, South Africa. She is the winner of the 2020 New Coin Prize for her poem "Learning to Swim" and the 2021 New Contrast National Poetry Prize for her poem "Silence in Church", and most recently the 2023 Thomas Pringle Award from The English Academy of Southern Africa. Sunflowers for my lovers is her first poetry collection.