Gumiguru

Togara Muzanenhamo

• Publisher: Carcanet Poetry
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781847772572
• eBook ISBN: 9781847774811
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: African Poetry
• Index: Literature

Gumiguru is the tenth month of the Shona calendar - a month of dryness and heat before the first rains fall and rejuvenate the land. Togara Muzanenhamo's second collection is a cycle of poems distilling the experiences of a decade into one calendar year, framed through the natural and agricultural landscapes of Zimbabwe. The book stands as both an elegy for the poet's father and a hymn to the veldt, the farms and villages, and the men and women whose lives are interwoven with the land and the changing seasons. This book, first published in 1993, collects Spark's essays on the Brontës, her selection of their letters and of Emily's poetry. Evident throughout are Spark's critical intelligence, dry wit, and refusal to sentimentalise - qualities that gave her own novels their particular appeal. At the same time, The Essence of the Brontës is Muriel Spark's tribute to the sisters whose talents placed them on a stage from where they could hypnotize their own generation and, even more, posterity.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Alderflies
• The Chronicles
• All the Good Help
• The Wire Gang
• The Surgeon’s Knot
• In the Music of Labour
• At Measure
• The Parlour
• St Joseph’s Fields
• The Naming of a Child
• Audition
• Kubvumbi
• The Dish
• His Sunday Shift
• And Evenings Come Like This…
• Engine Philosophers
• Cirrus
• Copper Fall
• Nagapie
• VHS
• State House
• The Wheel Brace
• Moonflowers
• Gleaners
• At the Work Yard
• A Pale View of Citrus Fields
• Barely Sixteen
• Candle Thorn
• A Faith
• Tobacco Country
• Oxbow
• Amnesia
• Portrait off a Water Trough
• The Coucal and the Smoker
• Gates of Dawn
• Hunters’ Society
• A Place for a Windmill
• Easygoing
• Gunyana
• Daughters of Our Age
• Savannah Chapel
• The Fig-route
• On the Balcony
• A Killing
• On Sunday Mornings
• Family Portrait
• Empress Mine
• Gumiguru
• Credence
• Flight
• Water
• The Apostle
• The Reduction
• Open Country
• Mercantile Rain
• Now the Boy’s Not Coming Along
• Hat-trick
• Facsimile of a Quiet Country
• Zvita
• About the Author
• Also by Togara Muzanenhamo from Carcanet Press
• Copyright