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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 | |