Chenjerai Hove

Born in 1954 near Zvishavane, Chenjerai Hove published his first collection of poetry, Up in Arms, in 1982 and The Red Hills of Home in 1985; the latter drew on of his deeply felt mo...

Blind Moon

Chenjerai Hove

A new collection of evocative and defiant poetry from one of Zimbabwe's leading literary and political writers. The poems reflect on the plight of the individual citizen and the state of Zimbabwe, the poet's birthplace and spiritual home. They convey empathy for those who suffer anonymous deaths at the expense of tyrannical power, and yearning for a more peaceful world and spirit of common destiny; their intention being in his words' to persuade the heart and the soul and human body to be together and to gently cry out to the world'.

"...read as a whole it is rich in touching a range of human experiences and emotions, seeming to move effortlessly between earth and sky, love and death. It is angry and sad, but it is not bitter. In Hove’s world there is still hope, there is still love, there is still emotion. There is potential for a better world where the human soul can be released to fly like a bird."
- Pambazuka News

African Books Collective, Oxford