Mario d'Offizi

Mario d'Offizi is a Cape Town based writer and poet. He is also assistant editor of Sawubona magazine.

Mario's work has featured in many publications over the years and his writing - prose and poetry - has been critically acclaimed thanks to its unfailing honesty and the warmth of his poetic voice.

Banana Crates & Wire Mesh

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Banana Crates and Wire Mesh spans several decades and sheds Mario d'Offizi's unique and often brutally honest light on a wide range of subjects, from the taboo to the mundane. Mario published his first poetry at an early age, but Banana Crates and Wire Mesh is his first anthology - it's a book that brings a lifetime of observations on the minutiae of South African life to the fore.

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Mario D'Offizi on the Victor Dlamini Literary Podcast
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Tag: broken ribs

2009.07.15 08:50:50
Mario

 

I climbed with great discomfort into the co-pilot’s seat of the little tin can four-seater Cessna, guided by Captain John Murphy who hopped into the pilot’s seat on my left, closed the door and enquired after my well-being. I explained that I had sustained an injury to my upper chest – probably a torn muscle, I suggested – in Jozi on the eve of my departure for Zambia.

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  Zambia | travel writing | broken ribs | whiskey
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