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Thabani Tshuma

Thabani T. Tshuma is an award-winning Zimbabwean writer and performance poet. His work can be found in publications such as AP's Best of Australian Poems, CUBBY, Kill Your Darlings, and ABC ArtWorks’ SLAMMED segment. Thabani is co-curator of Thin Red Lines, and his debut collection, The Gospel of Unmade Creation, was released in 2023 through Recent Work Press.

What bothers me is…

(After Vienna by Billy Joel) The pacing is off. We’re older than being too young, but still just as life-starved. Awestruck by our flash in the pan. It’s strange. They say we look like stars. Forgetting we combusted aeons ago. …

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Submission to Cordite 122: THRUM

Calling all thrumheads— — —

Every poem has an inherent frequency that hums through to the reader, a continuous drone between life and death. In weaving, thrums are the excess, unusable threads that still affect the ‘final’ work, discarded and put back together. We want to tap into that and curate a composition of ranging rhythm and leftovers. What sound does a poem on a page make? What are its scraps, its overflow?

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Critical Failure

[ Background Perception Check ] **PERCEPTION FAILED** You do not see it coming. The greatest poem ever written, guard it carefully, garner a carefree attitude to art. It intimidates life, the dated schoolyard kind of flattery. it flaunts to fawn …

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‘Poems are Alive’: Aïsha Trambas Interviews Thabani Tshuma

Thabani Tshuma is a Zimbabwean writer and performance poet. His work can be found in publications such as dichōtomi magazine and Next in Colour.

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