Tag: Poetry

  • BOOK REVIEW| Mukana Press’s Old Love Skin

    BOOK REVIEW| Mukana Press’s Old Love Skin

    Old Love Skin, a pan-African poetry collection, finds new voices summoning divinity where they please, and turning history pictures to the wall to fill in the blank negatives with ambivalence, impiety and intrigue. Poetry is, here, voice and breath, medicine and blood, origin and trace, unresolvedly tangled in a witching combat.

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  • Bishop of Bohemia – Onai Mushava on Living the Poet’s Life

    Bishop of Bohemia – Onai Mushava on Living the Poet’s Life

    I have dedicated the afternoon to picking the brain of award-winning author and journalist, Stanely Mushava. A new first name, Onai, has just replaced his given name, on his new 2019 book, Rhyme and Resistance. He is finishing his stint as tutorial assistant in the NUST Journalism and Media Studies. Somewhat leaner than his 28…

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