Patterns of Poetry

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prelude 1
4. PART ONE: TRAJECTORIES
5. Escape from the House of Hunger 9
6. The Last Image of My Father 18
7. Flower in the Snow 26
8. Defying the State 31
9. From Frau Mücke to Robert Mugabe 36
10. PART TWO: HARARE IN HEAT
11. December 1982 45
12. German Christmas in the Tropics 47
13. The Mozambican Bogeyman 50
14. The Oracle 55
15. Becoming Expatriates 58
16. Elective Affinities 61
17. Boscobel Drive 65
18. Guest of Honour 69
19. Harare International Book Fair 73
20. PART THREE: EAGLETS OF DESIRE
21. Getting Entangled 87
22. Nowhere to Go 97
23. Having a Home 104
24. Dambudzo and Max 108
25. Facing the Publishers 111
26. The Taxi Has to be Paid 115
27. Vumba and the Grand Finale 126
28. Coda 1: The Accident 136
29. Coda 2: I Hate Death 138
30. PART FOUR: HEAVEN’S TERRIBLE ECSTACY
31. A Reading and a Murder Charge 143
32. They Are Boiling My Bones in The Kitchen 149
33. 8 Sloane Court 152
34. The Ghost of Amelia 158
35. The Other Woman 164
36. Projects and Rejects 169
37. Patterns of Poetry 172
38. Angry Notes 178
39. Lake Mcllwaine – The Entrapment 180
40. Coda 1: Seroconversion 190
41. Coda 2: Conception 192
42. PART FIVE: BASTARD DEATH
43. The Great Scare 195
44. The Hourglass 198
45. How to Live On 208
46. Shadows of Death 210
47. He is Dead 215
48. PART SIX: ENTANGLED LEGACIES
49. Execution 223
50. The Tracking 234
51. The Moment of Terror 256
52. Carnival and Cockroaches – The Appointment 258
53. The Lady in Black 262
54. The Valley of Death or: Busting the Kraken 270
55. Out of the Closet 275
56. Acknowledgements 278