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BKO Writer's Style Guide v1.0 to be Released : BKO will release a Writer's Style Guide v1.0 soon. The process of compiling the style guide is at an advanced stage. The style guide is...

BKO: Call for Submissions : BKO is an online literary journal, and is looking for fresh, interesting and engaging content for its new website and its download vers...

BKO (PDF) is in Production : BKO (PDF) is in production. The BKO team is working on releasing the first edition of BKO as a download in less than a month. Productio...

BKO - Deep Conscious Reading

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New Edition of BKO is comin

BKO will be relaunched at the beginning of November 2010 - this after a 2-year hiatus.

Art Spoken - Like a Barrel

Art Spoken is a space for creative expression; for critique / appreciation / analysis / opinion

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Opinion / reviews / blatant expression and cutting-edge creative writing from BKO writers

BKO Style Guide is Coming S

BKO Style Guide v1.0 will be released in the next month. This is a guide designed for writers and contributors to submit materials / content to BKO ...

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New Edition of BKO is coming out soon

28 January

Art Spoken - Like a Barrel of a Gun

28 January

Blunt - Opinion, reviews, blatant expre

12 August

BKO Style Guide is Coming Soon!

BKO Quickies

‘Twas a sheep not a goat, that strayed
by Romeo Phakathi ‘Twas a sheep not a goat,…
Unchosen Ether
by Themba Zulu Through my canvas the unspoken is…
These Streets
by Teboho Mofokeng I have witnessed what could happen…
The Sum of We
you and me we fall into slipstreamfields of…
The Point
by Andrew Miller poetswho used to sitwith nibsthick…

Features & Poetry

Poets
by Natalia Molebatsi I do not know the point at which poets Regard themselves and others as suchIs it the fabrics…
Invisible Scars
by Napo Masheane Maybe I should open my chest for you to read its chroniclesFor you’d see these million scars tinted…
The Ghosts of Theatre
by Mak Manaka See how they danceAttention into a tranceAnd jazz pain off our hands.Born to wait,Stronger than yesterdayAnd weaker than…
In the Belly of Fire
by Mak Manaka Coming from the pastWe look back at the futureAnd wonder where our youth went.We are timeless soulsSearching for…
Bride of the Fallen (for Dennis Brutus)
by Moemise Motsepe The tragedy of victoryIs not only that good men die and widows are bornThe tragedy of victoryIs the…
The War of the Elements
by Moemise Motsepe I wonder which would winIf the elements went to warTo which would magic and majesty yieldIf a day…
Eclipse – A Ceremony of Rebirth (For Bra Fikile Magadlela)
by Moemise Motsepe I saw the moon and the sunMaking love in the skyAbove the south of AfricaWhere the world gathered…
Tender Pen of History
by Themba Zulu Who shall write my historyWith a tender penTo look at AfricaDraw from its oasisAnd not to slant the…
Robben Island
by Themba Zulu Who are you nowOnce you were mighty and fearsomeYour stomach is now without freedom fightersWho are you nowAre…
Unchosen Ether
by Themba Zulu Through my canvas the unspoken is heardThe unchosen path for muted voicesI was chosen I did not chooseMy…
Child of Freedom
by Themba Zulu I walk the noon of my lifeJoy is like a rising sunWhen moonshine swells luminouslyI walk the fields…
At the Factory Gate
by Themba Zulu Each day he stares aroundLooks at each passerbyThe sun beats him down with deep furrowsAnd crack his knuckles…