Intwasa poetry / / edited by Jane Morris

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824078803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bulawayo, : 'amaBooks, c2008
• ISBN: 0-7974-4502-1; 1-282-86887-X; 9786612868870; 0-7974-4338-X; 0-7974-4339-8; 0-7974-4232-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (74 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MorrisJane <1953->
• Disciplina: 821.9208096891
• Soggetti: African poetry (English); Poetry - 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Foreword; Julius Chingono; About words; Ditched; Half Mast; It denotes; They are picked; Chirikure Chirikure; Dancing mother; Mutserendende; Time to move on; John Eppel; Border Jumping; Giving; My Home Town; Shards; Waiting; Ignatius Mabasa; Epitaph; Ghetto Lights; Poetry; Shepherd Mandhlazi; When We Were Young; Judy Maposa; How about?; Deon Marcus; A Dialogue; Love; Root and Rain; There is something; The Unsown; Albert Nyathi; My Daughter; St. Valentine's Day; Struggles; Pathisa Nyathi; Upon Mzilikazi Bridge; Mthabisi Phili; Sunset in Mzilikazi; John S. ReadSmall House Bliss; Lloyd Robson; calling planet woman; bap-bah!; hoover haiku; this sticky heat; when she sleeps; Owen Sheers; The Equation; Not Yet My Mother; The Umbilical Tree; Valentine; When You Died; Véronique Tadjo; The cries from under the earth; Joelle Taylor; Mother's Milk; The Navigator; No Man's Land/ No Land's Man; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.