GUMIGURU

91pp., paperback, Manchester, 2014

A cycle of poems by Zimbabwean poet Togara Muzanenhamo. Guminguru is the tenth month in the Shona calendar - a month of dryness and heat before the rains come.

Togara Muzanenhamo was born in Luanda, Zambia, in 1975, to Zimbabwean parents. He grew up in Zimbabwe, and studied in France and the Netherlands. He is also the author of "Spirit Brides".