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.
"If you read no other African writer this decade, read this one...you'll laugh with him, cry with him, mourn with him, rejoice with him and ultimately triumph with him." - Leadership Magazine
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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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Weather
I said to the waitress
after breakfast at the Nibbling Squirrel
that I was going home to write poetry
and goodbye and have a nice weekend
She looked outside
at the black sky
into the black south-easter
and said it’s perfect weather
for writing poetry
I thought to myself
it’s not the weather outside
it’s the storm building up
inside of me
