Man Animal Thing
Man Animal Thing Poetry. Hooft-prize, the most important literary prize in The Netherlands for a whole oeuvre. Winner of the 2021 P.C. Structured around a series of daydreams and major events in…
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Man Animal Thing
Poetry. Hooft-prize, the most important literary prize in The Netherlands for a whole oeuvre. Winner of the 2021 P.C.
Structured around a series of daydreams and major events in Zulu's life, the poet extracts Zulu from the historical past and moves him to the modern media age where speed dating, UFOs and effervescent pain-killers are the norm. Partly inspired by Chaka, a famous South African novel from 1931, written by Thomas Mofolo, the book charts the imaginary progress of the nineteenth-century statesman and tyrant, Shaka Zulu (1787-1828). The collection is hugely diverse, from lyrical poetry to tweets to