Poet Interview: Manti Moila

"We are incapable of reigning over nature"

In this wide-ranging interview, Megan Natasha Ross chats to debut poet Manthipe (Manti) Moila about her poetry collection Rootbound, the joys and limitations of language, and the poets who influence and inspire her own work.

“Funny that you ask – you’re actually one of them! I love Milk Fever and I would underline lines I loved, read and reread poems, pluck out certain words from your verses and try to turn those into poems of my own. So this interview truly is a full circle moment. Others who I drew from were Maneo Mohale, Mark Strand, Ocean Vuong, and I.S Jones. In fact, in the collection there are poems that draw from specific lines in poems I admire.”

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