Togara Muzanenhamo was born to Zimbabwean parents in Lusaka, Zambia in 1975. He was brought up in Zimbabwe, and then went on to study in The Hague and Paris. He became a journalist in Harare and worked for a film script production company. His work has appeared in magazines in Europe, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and was included in Carcanet's anthology New Poetries in 2002. He lived in Manchester between 2002 and 2005. His first collection, Spirit Brides, was published in 2006 by Carcanet.

Sample:

A flask of tea and sandwiches; all day the
walk; now I take cover
In a bird hide where the heather claws the
wood. The swollen clouds
In the distance, dark gatherings of fluid,
pressing their weight over
The bladed farm; the black winds splitting
and spitting out this way.

from 'Tea and Sandwiches'

Spirit Brides, Carcanet, 2006

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