Bhlawa’s Inconsolable Spirits By Mxolisi Nyezwa
Title | : | Bhlawa’s Inconsolable Spirits |
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ISBN | : | 1928476481 |
Language | : | English |
Format Type | : | Paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 161 |
Publication | : | 27 January 2024 |
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Beautiful and poetic in ways that can only be understood by reading it yourself also so honoured to have met Nyezwa as a guest lecturer He was so kind and humble and made a genuine effort to get to know me Bhlawa s Inconsolable Spirits I have lived in Bhlawa all my life from the day or night I was born in Madala Street For 33 years I lived in my parents house For the 21 years since then I have lived in a flat made of red bricks in Ntshekisa Street a few metres away from the three roomed house in Madala which I called my home I ve visited different places in the world towns rural homesteads big cities but never for too long and very rarely But rather like a ship that is hauled with long ropes over a treacherous sea to a deserted bay I have been moored to this singular harbour of a township that is inhabited by drowning men. Bhlawa’s Inconsolable Spirits epubs Mxolisi Nyezwa was born in 1967 in Bhlawa New Brighton He is the author of three books of poems in English Song Trials 2000 New Country 2008 and Malikhanye 2011 and a book of Xhosa poems Ndiyoyika 2016 His poetry has appeared in several anthologies in South Africa and internationally In 1997 Nyezwa founded the multilingual cultural journal Kotaz which he still edits He is also a publisher of books in Xhosa under the imprint Imbizo Arts He runs a small business and urban chicken farm in Motherwell outside Gqeberha Port Elizabeth in South Africa Bhlawa s Inconsolable Spirits.