Poet

Tari Mtetwa

(Zimbabwe, 1982)

Biography

Tarisai Witness Mtetwa was born at St Augustine’s Mission near Mutare, and had a largely rural upbringing. He attended both primary and secondary school at St Augustine’s. Mtetwa began writing poetry at high school. “Even though I was not in a literature class,” he says, “I earnestly read all the books that fellow students were studying. I then developed an interest in literature, poetry in particular.”

After he finished school, Tari moved to Harare, where, at the same time as writing poetry, he worked as a self-taught artist and showed his work in a number of exhibitions as an employee of the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe. Subsequently, in 2007, he attended the then newly opened Zimbabwe Film and Television School of Southern Africa, graduating in 2010, when he immediately joined the academic staff as a lecturer.

Poems

NEVER THOUGHT I’D BE A RIVER FIRST NAKED GRAVE-DEEP WHISTLER ROCK HERE WITHOUT-A-NAME POTTER’S SONG OUTSIDE OLD SCHOOL JAM SESSION ON RADIO

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Poems of Tari Mtetwa

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Tari Mtetwa

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Poems

NEVER THOUGHT I’D BE A RIVER

First

Naked

GRAVE-DEEP WHISTLER

Rock

Here

WITHOUT-A-NAME

POTTER’S SONG

Outside

OLD SCHOOL JAM SESSION ON RADIO

VERSE FOR NODUMO

The Calendar

THE OLD SCHOOL

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