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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Khoisan

there is a honey bird in your heart

Khoisan

and it calls to me
through the cunning eyes
of a desert cat stalking

through the compassion of an antelope
gently grazing the grasses
of an ancient veld

chocolate oases

and it calls to me

wise eyes of a honey guide beckoning
tempting
leading
luring

sharing hidden nectar
abundantly earthed
in a gnarled and timeless
ancestral tree

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