"My first poetry performance was for a group of drunkards and drug addicts who were with me in prison." In the fourth of five conversations with contemporary writers in his native South Africa,
Christopher Hope talks to Sandile Dikene.
In his small apartment overlooking Table Bay in Cape Town the young poet, who spent three months in solitary confinement for his activities with the student movement at university, talks about his love of poetry and his performances at political rallies, and recites some of his own work and that of a Xhosa "poet of the people". (Final programme tomorrow
9.20pm)