In this Book
- Intwasa Poetry
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: amabooks
summary
Intwasa Poetry is a book of memorable poems from inside and outside Zimbabwe. The fifteen poets who are brought together in this collection have all read from their work at the Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo. There is a diversity in their work. The poems of love, of sensuality, of humour, of compassion, of yearning, of sadness, of loss and of outrage. They range from the intensely personal to reflections of life at this pivotal time in Zimbabwe's history.
Table of Contents
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- Julius Chingono
- About words
- p. 1
- It denotes
- pp. 4-5
- They are picked
- p. 6
- Chirikure Chirikure
- Dancing mother
- p. 7
- Mutserendende
- p. 8
- Time to move on
- p. 9
- John Eppel
- Border Jumping
- p. 10
- My Home Town
- p. 12
- Ignatius Mabasa
- Ghetto Lights
- p. 16
- Shepherd Mandhlazi
- When We Were Young
- p. 18
- Judy Maposa
- How about?
- pp. 19-20
- Deon Marcus
- A Dialogue
- p. 21
- Root and Rain
- p. 23
- There is something
- pp. 24-
- The Unsown
- p. 25
- Albert Nyathi
- My Daughter
- pp. 26-28
- St. Valentine’s Day
- p. 29
- Pathisa Nyathi
- Upon Mzilikazi Bridge
- pp. 31-32
- Mthabisi Phili
- Sunset in Mzilikazi
- p. 33
- John S. Read
- Small House Bliss
- p. 34
- Lloyd Robson
- calling planet woman
- p. 35
- hoover haiku
- p. 37
- this sticky heat
- p. 38
- when she sleeps
- pp. 39-41
- Owen Sheers
- The Equation
- p. 42
- Not Yet My Mother
- p. 43
- The Umbilical Tree
- p. 44
- When You Died
- p. 46
- Véronique Tadjo
- The cries from under the earth
- pp. 47-49
- Joelle Taylor
- Mother’s Milk
- pp. 50-51
- The Navigator
- pp. 52-54
- Contributors
- pp. 56-59
- Acknowledgements
- p. 60
Additional Information
ISBN
9780797443389
Related ISBN(s)
9780797436459
MARC Record
OCLC
659392353
Pages
72
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-20
Language
English
Open Access
No