Zimbabwe As Seen Through Poetic Lenses

27 January 2014

Few local poets seek to make a conventional impression, hence the counterpoint of angles which inheres in the tradition. The tradition is a melting pot where individual perceptions, native sensibilities, contra-conventional attitudes, universal experiences and aesthetic devices simmer to generate flavours adapted to varied tastes.

Flora Veit-Wild observes that despite sharing a setting where experiences such as the search for identity, effects of urbanisation and colonial devastations often line the task-pane, they are notable differences in how Zimbabwean poets respond to common experiences.

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