African Studies Association 2022 Aidoo-Snyder book award finalist & Longlisted for the Poetry Book Awards.
Waterstones
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize.
The Careless Seamstress is available HERE and from all major bookstores.
Mandible (Slapering Hol Press, 2014)
Mandible (Slapering Hol Press, 2014). “Perhaps this is the most memorable element of Dema’s poetry—its ability to be inviting, to allow readers a way to hinge their mandible to her own.”
– Matthew Shenoda
The Seven New Generation African Poets boxset is available HERE.
Buy HERE. German translation by Anna Pia Jordan-Bertinelli. Parasitenpress, February 2022

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Anthologies incl.

  • Wild Imperfections (Cassava Republic, 2021)
  • Botswana Women Write (University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 2019)
  • New Daughters of Africa anthology (Myriad, March 2019)
  • The New Orleans Review (43) 2017
  • Read Women: an anthology (Locked Horn Press, 2014)
  • The World Record … (Bloodaxe, 2012)

Essays, articles, blogs incl.

  • Chapter in Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature and Media (Modern Language Association of America, 2021)
  • Essay in Inspire: Exciting Ways of Teaching Creative Writing (CLCL – Goldsmiths University, 2020)
  • Exeter Quay Words 2020 writer-in-residence blog series
  • Introduction to a poetry collection You Too Will Know Me (Akashic Books, 2019)
  • Introduction to a poetry collection, The Heart is a Caged Animal (Praxis Magazine, 2019)
  • Essay in The Forgotten and the Unforgettable (Literature Translation Institute of Korea, 2016)

Secondary literature referencing Tjawangwa’s work incl.

SUHR-SYTSMA, Nathan. “Theories of African Poetry.” New Literary History, vol. 50 no. 4, 2019, p. 581-607. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/nlh.2019.0058.

BURNSIDE, John. The Music of time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Profile Books, 2019)

One of the most assured and inquisitive poetic voices emerging in Africa today — Kwame Dawes, Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and Director of the African Poetry Book Fund