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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In the media...

Mario D'Offizi on the Victor Dlamini Literary Podcast
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The great eternal leap frog

We die so that others
may live
the dying
transcending the living

who in turn
die
so yet others
may live

death
transcending life

life transcending
death

on and on
in an eternal continuum

so that
the one seed
may remain
intact

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