Sunflowers in Your Eyes /Menna Elfyn (ed)

Important anthology of four vibrant young women poets from Zimbabwe edited by internationally acclaimed and multi-award winning poet, Menna Elfyn.

Praise for Sunflowers in Your Eyes

Powerful reading and an opportunity to engage with Zimbabwe in a cultural and hopeful manner

Sara Maitland

The sense of ‘urgency’ and the realisation that a poem has its own sense of ‘time’ are inherent in the work of four accomplished women poets from Zimbabwe.  These voices are much needed, conveying a world made magnificent in its humanity. These voices sing of an unquenchable spirit and display the canniness of place and in Olson’s words ‘a tracking of earth in time’.

Menna Elfyn

Menna Elfyn

Blessing Musariri is an award-winning children’s author and widely published.  She has been featured in various international anthologies and was recently awarded a special prize in the Susie Smith Memorial Prize Competition, Oxfam.

Ethel Irene Kabwato has won many prizes for her prose and poetry. She is a founding member of the Zimbabwe Women Writers Project and has read her work at Rhodes University and University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. She works in a project called Slum Cinema, a voluntary initiative which seeks to empower disadvantaged communities through multi-media work.

Joice Shereni is a single mother of two children. Her and writing empowers her to shed light on her understanding of the world.

Fungai Rufaro Machirori she was recognised with the Africa-wide award in excellence in strategic communication on HIV and AIDS in 2007. She has won national short-story and script writing competitions; is journalist, researcher and blogger and works in international development with specific focus on gender issues.