The broken word
By: Adam Foulds.
Series: Cape poetry
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780224084444
Subjects: Epic poetry, English; Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry
Description: An extraordinary poetic sequence that animates and illuminates the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in the 1950s, eventually becoming a meditation on the inheritance of conflict and its consequences. It is a thrillingly original, profound and lyrical work.