Harare Review of Books

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Jacqueline

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Launch of Rutendo Chichaya’s Anchored Stitches

Last night, had the pleasure of attending the launch of Rutendo Chichaya’s Anchored Stitches at Moto Republic, here in Harare.

It was a wonderful evening, with fantastic performances from guest poets Ruvimbo Jeche, TearsintheSoil, and Tadana Nakai (who delighted the audience with an incredible poem about avocados).

Some images from the evening in the video below:

Here’s what I blurbed about this wonderful collection:

In these poems, Rutendo Chichaya cuts her own heart open and lays it before the reader-and in so doing, offers an invitation to the reader to be sliced open, too. This is the confident voice of an eloquent Zimbabwean, one who speaks with an “inferno in her mouth” of grief, despair, and rage against evil state structures and the patriarchy… But who also wields language to remind us of the rhythms of the natural world, of tradition, of love and passion, of
“reclamation, redemption and recovery”-the things that hold our souls together. This beautiful collection is to be read, treasured, quoted from, and read again.
~ Jacqueline Nyathi, Harare Review of Books

You can—should!—get Anchored Stitches from publisher Carnelian Heart.

Congratulations, Rutendo!

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