STATE OF THE NATION Contemporary Zimbabwean Poetry

Tinashe MUSHAKAVANHU and David NETTLEINGHAM [editors]

ISBN 10: 0956313701 / ISBN 13: 9780956313706

Published by The Conversation Press, Faversham, Kent, 2009

About this Item

Scarce. Signed by Tinashe (editor and contributor) and Michael Tsingo (contributor) else clean throughout. 13 x 20cms with 167pp. We regret we are not able to dispatch orders to Denmark. All profits to Amnesty International.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: STATE OF THE NATION Contemporary Zimbabwean Poetry
• Publisher: The Conversation Press, Faversham, Kent
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956313701
• ISBN 13: 9780956313706
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Fisani Nkomo [cover]
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

State of the Nation glimpses across generations to bring together 30 Zimbabwean poets in the first dedicated anthology for over two decades. In Zimbabwe, the art of conversation had become steadily harder, paralysed by political wrangling. Unasked questions, unstated views, unattainable dreams and unfulfilled promises have all been part of the formulae of a failed government. But through this decline the driving need for self-expression has remained, and found an opening on the page. The poets in this anthology burst out with a certainty and an urgency which scream - it must be told, it must be told!

From the Author

"Zimbabwean poetry over the decades has been a way of capturing the nation-state coming into being with all its inadequacies, prejudices and ecstatic self-discoveries by poets when they see their individual selves as unique prisms of all that constitute either colonial Rhodesia or post-colonial Zimbabwe." - Nhamo Mhiripiri & J. Tsitsi Mutiti