EVERYTHING IS A DEATHLY FLOWER, poems

65pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2019

Winner of the 2020 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. Finalist for the 2020 Ingrid Jonker Prize.

In her debut collection of poems Maneo Mohale grapples with the experience of - and the reconstruction of a life after – a sexual assault.

Maneo Mohale was born in 1992 in Benoni. Their work has appeared in Jalada, Prufrock, the New York Times, and the Mail & Guardian. They are a 2016 Bitch Media Global Feminism Fellow. After living in Canada for five years, they now live in Johannesburg, where they work as an editor and writer.