Draft:Stanzas (magazine)

Stanzas Poetry Magazine is South Africa’s only literary magazine dedicated to poetry. It is currently triannual, publishing poetry, reviews of poetry, and obituaries.

History
Stanzas was started in 2015 by poets Douglas Reid Skinner and Patricia Schonstein following the closure of Gus Ferguson’s Carapace. Initially a quarterly magazine, Stanzas was published by Schonstein’s African Sun Press in association with Skinner’s Leftfield Poetry and the McGregor Poetry Festival.

Patricia Schonstein left the magazine after issue 20 and from issue 21 the magazine became triannual while increasing in size.

The magazine aims to contain “as wide a mix of voices as one can persuade to participate” while maintaining “An unending humbleness before the whole tradition of the art.”

It takes its guiding principles from long-time patron Jonty Driver:

A literary culture requires reaffirming and renewing by each generation as it gathers in the inheritance of the past and weaves it into a future.