Poetry helps to keep the light on
For my final interview with South African woman writers for Mslexia I chatted to award winning poet Bev Rycroft about poetry prizes, poetry in South Africa and about being a woman writer.
Did it make a difference to you or your poetry when you received the second prize in the Sol Plaatjie Poetry Competition for Has your Dad got a Bird yet?
It opened doors and it helped my confidence. I used to have flashes believing that people were only saying good things about my poetry because they were being nice to me. This prize gave me an independent confirmation that my poetry is good. (The competition is judged blindly).
The rest of the interview can be found at the Mslexia Blog.