A Naked Bone
Mangaliso Buzani
In simple vocabulary a naked bone describes complex states of beauty and suffering, often at the borderline where life meets death. In their dreamlike rhythms and images, the poems draw strength from Xhosa culture, Christianity and elements of nature. They are love poems in the widest sense, embracing the interface between daily life and the spiritual, enacting joy and caring in the face of deprivation and mourning.
Date of publication: 2019
ISBN 978-0-9947104-6-8 / ebook ISBN 978-0-9947104-7-5
82 pages
203 x 133mm
R120.00
Mangaliso Buzani 2020
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Mangaliso Buzani (b.1978) grew up in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth / Gqeberha. He began writing poetry at school, in English and isiXhosa. His aunt was a writer, and through her he met Mxolisi Nyezwa and other Eastern Cape poets including Mzi Mahola. After school Buzani trained as a jeweller at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) in Pretoria. In the library at TUT he discovered the poetry of Rumi and César Vallejo. In 2013 he did an MA in Creative Writing at Rhodes University, where he continued reading widely, particularly Spanish, Eastern European and isiXhosa poetry. Buzani’s first collection, Ndisabhala Imibongo (Imbizo Arts, 2014), won the 2015 South African Literary Award (SALA) for Poetry. His long prose poem "a naked bone" won the 2014 DALRO award for best poem published in the poetry journal New Coin. His first book in English, a naked bone (Deep South, 2019) won the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry in 2019. Since 2016 Buzani has taught creative writing in English and isiXhosa in the Rhodes University MA programme. Books published |
Additional information
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Reviews of this book
Review by Vonani Bila of a naked bone by Mangaliso Buzani New Coin, 2020 text PDF
Review by Tom Penfold of a naked bone by Mangaliso Buzani Africa in Words, 2020 text PDF
Interviews & Articles
Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry "Judge’s Report" by Aracelis Girmay for a naked bone by Mangaliso Buzani, 2019 text PDF
Article by Mangaliso Buzani: "Form and structure: using poems to teach the writing of lyrical poetry" English in Africa, 2018 text PDF
Interview with Mangaliso Buzani by Wamuwi Mbao New Contrast, 2020 text PDF
Other Links
Interview with Mangaliso Buzani
Interview with Mangaliso Buzani by Nkateko Masinga Africa in Dialogue, 2020
Poetry reading by Mangaliso Buzani
Various poems read by Mangaliso Buzani The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Collective on YouTube, 2023
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