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| The new platform dances | |
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| When this carnival finally closes | |
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| Making our clowns martyrs | |
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| Messages | |
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| Steve Biko is dead | |
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| After Wiriyamu Village massacre by Portuguese | |
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| Messages from Soweto | |
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| Kabula Curio-shop, Blantyre | |
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| The cheerful girls at Smiller's Bar, 1971 | |
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| Cycles | |
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| Epitaph for a mad friend | |
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| On his royal blindness paramount Chief Kwangala | |
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| In memory of Matthew, 1976 | |
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| The house that Florrie intended | |
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| Handshakes and best wishes, 1972 | |
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| Sketches of London | |
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| The first train to Liverpool, (Enfield : Liverpool vs Stoke, 1972) | |
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| Travelling in London tubes | |
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| A letter from Florrie Abrahim witness, Fort Mlangeni, Mocambique, December, 1972 | |
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| Drinking the water from its source | |
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| As the West End Allegro subsides today | |
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| Visiting Zomba plateau | |
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| Re-entering the shrines of Zomba | |
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| Glory be to Chingwe's hole | |
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| Gerrie's season of goodwill, 1975 | |
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| Hounds in puddles | |
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| Waiting for the electronic forceps | |
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| The plane tree in Talbot Square | |
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| We wondered about the mellow peaches | |
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| April 1978, the prisoners quietly back | |
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| Nor will I believe the glorious retreat | |
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| At the metro : old irrelevant images, 1979 | |
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| On being asked to write a poem for 1979 | |
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| Of our chiefs and their concubines, 1981 | |
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| Out of bounds (or our maternity asylum) | |
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| Kadango Village, even Milimbo Lagoon is dry | |
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| When the Shire valley dries up patiently | |
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| The farms that gobble the land at home | |
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| The haggling old woman at Balaka | |
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| Vigil for a fellow credulous captive | |
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| Baobab fruit picking (or development in Monkey Bay) | |
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| Moving into Monkey Bay (with pioneer charcoal sellers) | |
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| Flying over the summer haze of home | |
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| Burning the witch for the rains (the dark case) | |
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| The rise of the new toadies, May 1983 | |
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| No, Creon, there's no virtue in howling | |
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| Easter apologies for babble dreams | |
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| Smiller's bar revisited, May 1983 | |
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| For fear of which mandras images & which death? (or when the nation stood in horror) | |
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| For another politburo projected (the great hall) | |
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| The 1984 martyrs' day prayer | |
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| Chilling Jan Smuts airport (in-transito, 1984) | |
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| On banning Of chameleons and gods (June, 1985) | |
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| April wishes for 20 Gordon Square, London, (a letter, 1987) | |
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| The second jacarandas of Zomba | |
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| The streak-tease at Mikuyu Prison, 25 Sept, 1987 | |
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| Fears from Mikuyu cells for our loves | |
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| The chattering wagtails of Mikuyu prison | |
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| The famished stubborn ravens of Mikuyu | |
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| Scrubbing the furious walls of Mikuyu | |
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| To the unknown Dutch postcard-sender (1988) | |
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| The Boxing Day visit of the head of detainees | |
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| The tale of a Dzeleka Prison hard-core hero | |
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| Tethered border fugitives upon release | |
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| The straggling mudhuts of Kirk Range, 1991 | |
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| The baobab trees of Nkope Hill | |
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| Your tears still burning at my handcuffs, 1991 | |
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| Canadian geese flying over Alison's house | |
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| You caught me slipping off your shoulders once | |
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| The souvenir shards of my Berlin wall | |
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| For madame Potiphar's wasteaways | |
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| In memoriam (for Orton Chirwa, Edinburgh Cathedral, 20 October, 1992) | |
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| The following dawn the boots | |
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| Skipping without ropes | |
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| Season's greeting for Celia (Bc) | |
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| Our doctor Mr. Ligomeka (in memoriam) | |
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| Hector's slapping of Mama's brother | |
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| When release began like a biblical parable | |
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| Our friend Inspector General Macwilliam Lunguzi | |
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| Tamya's shepherd's pie, 10 May 1991 | |
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| The risen Lazarus at very tedious last! | |
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| The sinful scribe of Kabula Hill, Blantyre | |
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| Another clan of road fated shrews | |
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| The vipers who minute our twitches | |
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| The delights of moving house, Tang Hall, York | |
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| St. Margaret Clitherow of York | |
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| Another guide to Clifford's Tower, York | |
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| Heartaches in Norwegian, Bergen | |
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| The parable of my Renault 4 driver, Stavanger | |
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| On his vain search for Roosendaal | |
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| Antwerp : chronicle of an 'other' imperial child's encounter | |
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| Watching Berthe flying easter balloon | |
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| The acacias of Gaborone City, Botswana | |
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| Warm thoughts for Ken Saro-wiwa | |
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| Looking for Nyarwanda among the bones of Butare | |
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| The child that now hurts | |
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| Chitenje for a lifetime wedding cheer | |
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| Remembering the tyrant's game of football, 1978 | |
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| The return of the rhinoceros | |
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| The fish eagles of Cape Maclear, 1994 | |
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| Guilty of nipping her pumpkin leaves, 1994 | |
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| Hyenas playing political prisoners | |
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| The lies we told about the elephant | |
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| The new rebels at Zalewa highway bridge | |
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| When the watery monsters argued | |
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| The stench of porridge | |
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| It's the speed that matters, my dear Padre | |
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| On David Constantine's poem | |
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| On driving his political enemies to Scarborough | |
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| Rested amongst fellow hyenas, finally | |
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| The Minster Inn, York | |
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| Fleeting child of the 3-day week | |
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| After celebrating our asylum stories at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds | |
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| The seashells of Bridlington North Beach | |
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| No swearing please, we've children about | |
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| When Chameleon first saw the city of Cork | |
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| The grumpy old hippopotami of Tala Game Reserve, Kwazulu Natal, 1999 | |
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| The patron of jubilee 2000 | |
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| Now that Sept. 11 should define Mr. Western civilization ... | |
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| Letter to Landeg White in Portugal, Oct. 2001 | |
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| The taxis of North Yorkshire | |
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| The ballad of Lady Bibby renaissance of barrow docks, April 2003 | |
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| Justine cops of Clapham Village | |