“‘Europe asks if it can touch my hair’. Reading South African Women’s Poetry in Rome”

On Tuesday, February 17, 2026, Maria Paola Guarducci and Francesca Terrenato were at the University of Cape Town in Rondebosch, South Africa, at the School of Languages and Literature, where they were hosted in Dr Bibi Burger’s class to talk about their work on South African women poets. Postgraduate students, PhD students, and colleagues participated in an open discussion on the richness of women’s poetry in English and Afrikaans in the country.