Virga
- ISBN-10
- 1800171447
- ISBN-13
- 9781800171442
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 108
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-08-26
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd
- Author
- Togara Muzanenhamo
Description
Winner of the African Poetry Book Fund's 2022 Luschei Prize for African Poetry An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021 A Poetry Book Society Autumn 2021 Recommendation Virga is the third book of poems by Zimbabwean poet Togara Muzanenhamo, following on from his acclaimed collections Spirit Brides (2006) and Gumiguru (2014). Set in the twentieth century, Virga features historical events woven together by the weather. From the spiritual silence of a sundog during the 1911 Japanese Antarctic Expedition, to the 1921 World Championship chess matches in the Cuban heat, to the final hours of a young Bavarian mountaineer in the Bernese Alps in 1936 and strange white clouds decimating whole villages in northern Cameroon in 1986 - the poems capture stories of a rapidly evolving century beneath an ancient, fragile sky. The title relates to the meteorological phenomenon in which a column, shaft or band of rain or snow is seen falling from a cloud but never reaching the earth - evaporating before touchdown. Like Gumiguru, which has so much to do with weather, Virga continues with it, its impact on our daily lives. But, here, his geography broadens out to include wider worlds and different histories artfully strung together by the poet's fascination with the elements. Togara Muzanenhamo was shortlisted for the Jerwood Alderburgh First Collection Prize and the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry.
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