Bukowski, on his deatbed

ABOUT THE POET ~
Raphael d’Abdon (PhD) is a poet, scholar, editor and translator, and the author of four collections of poems, "sunnyside nightwalk" (Geko, 2013), "salt water" (Poetree Publishing, 2016), "the bitter herb" (The Poets Printery 2018) and "Selected poems/Poesie scelte (2010 – 2020)" (Besa, 2021, bilingual edition English/Italian). He has done readings in South Africa, Nigeria, Somaliland, India, Italy, Sweden, Canada and the USA, and his poems are published in journals, magazines and anthologies in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Malawi, Singapore, Palestine, India, Italy, Canada, USA, Australia and the UK. He is the poetry editor of the literary magazine BKO, South Africa’s representative of AHN (Africa Haiku Network), and a founding member of ZAPP (The South African Poetry Project), a research group of the University of South Africa (UNISA) and the University of the Witwatersrand, whose chief aims are to create innovative poetry teaching methodologies, and to instill knowledge, understanding and a love of poetry in young learners.