some insight… into the brutality of colonialism, the vagaries of growing up permanently dispossessed in a racially structured society, the tortuous quest for reconciliation of a shattered old culture with a hostile and spiritless new world cultivated to disadvantage the African and… the undying quest for harmony with nature… And then also you may wonder about the chaos artistic rhythms and traditions forever tussling for my creative attention. Bibliography Poetry Thought Tracks Longman, 1982. Kingfisher, Jikinya and other poems Longman Zimbabwe, 1982. Country Dawns and City Lights Longman Zimbabwe, 1985. Perfect Poise College Press, 1993. Selected Poems Longman, 1995 Short stories Nightshift Longman, 1993. Literary criticism Those Years of Drought and Hunger: The Birth of African Fiction in English in Zimbabwe 1982. As editor And Now the Poets Speak Mambo Press, 1981. With Mudereri Khadani The Fate of Vultures: New Poetry of Africa Heinemann International, 1989. With Kofi Anyidoho and Peter Porter. Birthright: Selection of Poems from Southern Africa Longman International Education, 1990. References External links Profile on the Poetry International Web An interview with Zimunya 1949 births Living people People from Mutare Zimbabwean poets Zimbabwean male writers Male poets Alumni of the University of Kent Academic staff of the University of Zimbabwe Zimbabwean expatriates in England Zimbabwean expatriates in the United States Zimbabwean exiles