andrehess3's profile picture. Writes fiction, art/craft crit, & dog press. Faber alumnus, and 3X longlisted on the Fish. Cape Flats, Africa, vet surg, artist, collector. Oh, and ceramicist.

Andre Hess

@andrehess3

Writes fiction, art/craft crit, & dog press. Faber alumnus, and 3X longlisted on the Fish. Cape Flats, Africa, vet surg, artist, collector. Oh, and ceramicist.

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“A novel is the only place where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy. The reader and the writer make the book together. No other art can capture the essential inwardness of human life.” —Paul Auster buff.ly/494KydA

parisreview's tweet image. “A novel is the only place where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy. The reader and the writer make the book together. No other art can capture the essential inwardness of human life.” —Paul Auster buff.ly/494KydA

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Don Materra's poem, "For a cent" followed by an Afrikaans translation. Apartheid's harm will stay with us for generations. For a cent Each morning corner of Pritchard and Joubert leaning on a dusty crutch near a pavement dust-bin an old man begs not expecting much. His…

jfjoubert's tweet image. Don Materra's poem, "For a cent" followed by an Afrikaans translation. 

Apartheid's harm will stay with us for generations.

For a cent

Each morning
corner of Pritchard and Joubert
leaning on a dusty crutch
near a pavement dust-bin
an old man begs not expecting much.
His…

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Bella Donita holding an Israeli official to account in January on Sky News, it was her last ever appearance. Like Sangita Myska she was cancelled. RT the hell out of this, we can't let anyone who stands up be cut down, and let them get away with it.


This is easily my book of the year. It is miraculous.

andrehess3's tweet image. This is easily my book of the year. It is miraculous.

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Just heard the Home Secretary stand up in Parliament and declare that "the British people support the Rwanda plan". I'm sick of these guys telling me what I support. I do not support the "Rwanda plan". If you don't either, please retweet.


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Breyten Breytenbach's poem, "Die na-dood", followed by an English translation. Die na-dood van Breytenbach mag die pad jou weer lei na waar 'n ooste vlam al langs die buitelyne van vergeet waar hane die sterre troos en blaasorkeste speel in binneplase van die hart dankie vir…

jfjoubert's tweet image. Breyten Breytenbach's poem, "Die na-dood", followed by an English translation.

Die na-dood van Breytenbach

mag die pad jou weer lei
na waar 'n ooste vlam
al langs die buitelyne van vergeet
waar hane die sterre troos
en blaasorkeste speel
in binneplase van die hart

dankie vir…

By the way, I also write professionally. This is in the latest Ceramic Review.

andrehess3's tweet image. By the way, I also write professionally. This is in the latest Ceramic Review.

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Writers of colour are still grossly underrepresented, pigeon holed by their blackness, too often offered as marginalised decorative narratives along the edges of a mainstream ✍️@charwilliamsOBE 👉wp.me/p8Mk4U-Abx nation.cymru/culture/on-bei…


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As it is #BookshopDay Heth and I popped into the wonderful @bookcasehebden and had a natter with Simon. If you’re able please do support Indy bookshop, the heart and soul of our bookish communities.

Ofmooseandmen's tweet image. As it is #BookshopDay 

Heth and I popped into the wonderful

@bookcasehebden and had a natter with Simon.

If you’re able please do support Indy bookshop, the heart and soul of our bookish communities.

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"We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future." Prime Minister and philosopher Jan Christiaan Smuts.


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Heres something that gave me joy today: can you guess what is? The shopping list of Michelangelo. Fish bread fennel soups, a herring, anchovies, tortelli, and wine! Sketched for his illiterate maid. A friend sent it from Florence where its in Casa Buonarroti

simonmontefiore's tweet image. Heres something that gave me joy today: can you guess what is?

The shopping list of Michelangelo.  

Fish bread fennel soups, a herring, anchovies, tortelli, and wine!  Sketched for his illiterate maid.  

A friend sent it from Florence where its in Casa Buonarroti

#amwriting #writing #writerscommunity #amediting #writers #WriteChat Black, or even blackish, writers are compelled to write about black identity. Black pain/discomfort is fetishised by the publishing industry, but don’t go deep. Black writers are not allowed complexity. Discuss.


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To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence﹣words you have dreaded & needed in order to know you exist." —Adrienne Rich #Writing


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