Zimbabwean-born Muzanenhamo has earned his multicultural air miles, having lived and studied in Holland, Belgium and France, as well as in Manchester, where he worked on his poetry under the tutelage of Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. read more

Togara Muzanenhamo’s first collection draws on an extraordinarily diverse series of cultures and geographies, moving almost seamlessly from his Zimbabwe childhood to Holland, Belgium, France and England, as well as into frighteningly featureless countries of political parable. read more

Bladed farms John Greening It is perhaps unfair to assume that a poet brought up in Zimbabwe will write about that country's difficulties, but while turmoil continually threatens in the language of Spirit Brides (the mob in "The Armchair"; the bodies in "The Craft"; the mounds and burying and blood-colour of "Leaves"; the "guillotine changeover" in "The Slide"), this young writer's concerns are ostensibly more personal, more oblique. read more