Abigail George

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Abigail George is an author, a screenwriter and an award winning poet. She is a Pushcart Prize, two-time Best of the Net nominated, Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Prize longlisted, Writing Ukraine Prize shortlisted, Identity Theory's Editor's Choice, Ink Sweat Tears Pick of the Month poet/writer, and 2023 Winner of the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award. She is a two-time recipient of grants from the National Arts Council, one from the Centre of the Book and another from ECPACC. She won a national high school writing competition in her teens. She was interviewed by BBC Radio 4, and for AOL.com, the USA Today Network and The Tennessean. Follow her on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram @abigailgeorgepoet.

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On Being A Poet And Finding Your Voice In A COVID-19 World

"You". You look beyond the words. I can understand that. In daylight you open yourself to experience. I find psychological gratification when he says,...

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Success is no accident. I don't believe in luck, the magic wand, the quick fix. Principles, progress, passion, plans and process being passionate lead...

Virtual Reality

This is the soundtrack of my heart, of my life if you care to listen. If there is anyone out there who cares to listen....

Epistle, Epistomology

I would rather talk to my pastor than my own family. We have all been estranged for years. I will continue to pray for...

Letter to a Greek poet on all the potentialities in a COVID-19 world

It hurts me that I still get wounded sometimes. Sometimes even deeply wounded by the woman that I call mother and hope and muse....

Beauty, imagination and enchantment in a COVID-19 world

Everything about being in love is supersonic-personified. I don't know yet if I can change the world, but today for a smart change I...

The tortured loneliness of poets, or, older males

But the air is growing cold. As coldas the angst of beginners. I am not that scholarship girl in chapters and parts. I keep...

Chasing the sea

The voices are inside my head. Calling to me. Speaking in ancient tongues. They talk and talk and talk. The damage is done. The...

In the big night

“What are you running away from? I’m sad too, you know. Leaving behind the only world that I’ve ever known. Scooter’s the name by...

The gravity of the lover

So, mother, like Johannesburg, you cut me in deep, imaginative and resourceful ways. A cut from you was a project. Thinking of you, staring at you,...

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