Jennifer writes about Africa, both the landscape and being white in post-independent Zimbabwe. She has been a guest judge for Off Topic Publishing's monthly poetry contest and launched The Poetry Box with editor-in-chief Marion Lougheed. After three years she returned to Zimbabwe, briefly working with National Ballet and Tumbuka Dance Company. At 17, she moved to Manchester, England to continue her ballet training. Every page is warm with the heat of Africa and wet with the tears of unbelonging.Ībout the Author: Jennifer Mariani was born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe. The poems in this book cry out with grief and rage and loss, and sometimes celebration. Never far from the page is the reality of growing up white in post-independence Zimbabwe: Jennifer's own privilege juxtaposed with everyday poverty and racism. Jennifer Mariani's poems grieve a life she can't return to, even as she struggles to belong elsewhere. A self-imposed exile, a state of constant waiting. A life that crisscrosses Zimbabwe, England, and Canada.
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