Poets and Pretenders
John Sutherland, 2 April 1987
The Position of the Body
by Richard Stern.
Northwestern, 207 pp., $21.95, November 1986,0 8101 0730 9 Show More
by Richard Stern.
Northwestern, 207 pp., $21.95, November 1986,
The Setting Sun and the Rolling World
by Charles Mungoshi.
Heinemann, 202 pp., £10.95, February 1987,0 434 48166 1 Show More
by Charles Mungoshi.
Heinemann, 202 pp., £10.95, February 1987,
Conversations with Lord Byron on Perversion, 162 Years after his Lordship’s Death
by Amanda Prantera.
Cape, 174 pp., £9.95, March 1987,9780224024235 Show More
by Amanda Prantera.
Cape, 174 pp., £9.95, March 1987,
“... way of life. Africa doesn’t have time for anything more than literary snapshots and fragments. Charles Mungoshi’s The Setting Sun and the Rolling World is a collection of tersely short stories from Rhodesia and Zimbabwe (two very different places, as it emerges). They take the form of understated studies of contemporary black proletarian and tribal ... ”
