Now in its third year, the AVBOB Poetry Project has garnered several industry prizes.

I Wish I'd Said: Volume 2 includes 101 poems with English translations: 55 specially commissioned poems and 44 poems drawn from the 2018 competition. And, following the blueprint of the first volume, we pay homage to the Khoisan languages, by including two poems by the |Xam poet Dia!kwain. South African poets old and new were asked to submit poems on loss, grieving, love and consolation in their mother tongues.

This new collection – and the online poetry portal – forms a space where the voiceless may be heard, and where we find common ground. Loss is a universal language and poetry its voice.

This collection of 20 short stories is the outcome of a widely publicised competition in the media (isiZulu newspapers and uKhozi FM). An adjudication committee, put together by the UKZN University Language Planning & Development Office, selected the top twenty stories out of a 101 entries. The stories are based on varied themes, both current and old, written in an interesting style that encompasses current circumstances. Some newer themes include those based on drugs, social networks, religion, etc., the older themes include witchcraft (ubuthakathi) and using umuthi for power (ukuthwala), as well as the ever popular themes of love, secrets and betrayal. The twenty stories in this book were further evaluated in order to select the top three, who are going to win prizes at the launch of the book on the 8th of November 2016.The book is suitable for schools and general readers because of the thematic strands that it covers.