1.) ZIMBABWE TAPESTRY and other poems (1963) - Signed 2.) MOPANI POETS vols 3 & 4 - Inscribed by Musa Zimunya to Faustin Charles

1.) ZIMBABWE TAPESTRY and other poems by Mary Fourie

First edition, Arthur h. Stockwell, Ilfracombe - Devon, 1963.

Publisher's softcover with silver titles on front panel.

42pp. Signed by author on title page and dated.

Very good condition.

2.) MOPANI POETS - Double volume (Vols. 3 & 4)

First edition, The Poetry Society of Rhodesia, Salisbury - Rhodesia, 1979.

Vol.3: A Patch of Sky - D. E. Borrell

Vol.4: Zimbabwe Ruins - Musa B. Zimunya

This copy is inscribed by Musa B. Zimunya on the title page, "To Faustin Charles - Love, MUSA."

Faustin Charles is a Trinidadian poet and also an author of novels and children's books.

This is a scarce volume of Rhodesian/Zimbabwean poetry featuring some of the earliest work by Musaemura "Musa" Bonas Zimunya, one of Zimbabwe's most important contemporary writers.

'Zimunya was born in 1949 in Umtali, Rhodesia. In 1973 he was expelled from the University of Rhodesia for 'disturbing the peace'. While exiled in Great Britain he studied at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He got a Bachelor's Degree in 1978 and a Masters Degree in 1979. His MA dissertation was later published as Those Years of Drought and Hunger: The Birth of African Fiction in English in Zimbabwe.

In 1980, he returned to newly independent Zimbabwe and took a University of Zimbabwe position as a professor of English that he has kept since. He has been secretary general of the Zimbabwean Writer's Union. In 1992 he received a Fulbright scholarship to the Pratt Institute in New York. He left Zimbabwe in 1999 for the USA and is currently Director of Black Studies at Virginia Tech.

Zimunya's poetry deals with the beauty of Zimbabwe, but also with its poverty and history of suffering, and with urban alienation from spiritual heritage. Most of his published work is in English, but he also writes in Shona.' - Wikipedia