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Rutendo Chichaya’s Anchored Stitches Finds Beauty in the Work of Mending

Zimbabwean life, with its griefs and contradictions, sits at the centre of Rutendo Chichaya's debut poetry collection, Anchored Stitches. Across 80 pages, Chichaya writes about unemployment, injustice, womanhood, motherhood, mourning, love, and the ordinary experiences that reveal the pressures of a society in distress.

Rutendo Chichaya’s Anchored Stitches Finds Beauty in the Work of Mending

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Zimbabwean life, with its griefs and contradictions, sits at the centre of Rutendo Chichaya's debut poetry collection, Anchored Stitches.

Across 80 pages, Chichaya writes about unemployment, injustice, womanhood, motherhood, mourning, love, and the ordinary experiences that reveal the pressures of a society in distress.

The collection moves between the personal and political, asking what it […]

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Zimbabwean life, with its griefs and contradictions, sits at the centre of Rutendo Chichaya's debut poetry collection, Anchored Stitches. Across 80 pages, Chichaya writes about unemployment, injustice, womanhood, motherhood, mourning, love, and the ordinary experiences that reveal the pressures of a society in distress. The collection moves between the personal and political, asking what it […]

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