The big interview Edward Dzonze...

He has published a number of books and more of his work is published in journals and magazines . Edward Dzonze is the author of Many Truths at Once, Wisdom Speaks and Breakfast with Marechera and has published more than 200 poems. Our correspondent (SN) caught up with Dzonze (ED) and got a glimpse into his promising career.

Below are excerpts from the interview.

SN: Readers would want to know about you. Who is Edward Dzonze?

ED: Edward Dzonze is the author of Many Truths Told at Once (Royalty Publishing, USA, 2015), Wisdom Speaks (Royalty Publishing, USA, 2016), both being online editions, and Breakfast with Marechera (Diaspora Publishers, UK, 2018). Dzonze (30) is also the co-editor of the Zimbolicious Poetry Series Volume 1 and 2 with co-editor Tendai Mwanaka having to do the Volume 3 alone due to pressing commitments on my part. I have contributed to more than 20 journals and anthologies across the globe. SN: Why did you choose to do poetry?

ED: I fell in love with poetry at a tender age. I was only nine when my mother found me going through lines from Okot p' Bitek's Song of Lawino. Picking from the title, I was reading the poems with a musical appreciation when my mother told me that what was before me was actually poetry, not songs, and I told her there and then I wanted to become a poet. My love for words grew stronger. The first thing I would do whenever I picked a new read, I would go to the biography, which usually came on the back cover, I would read it out trying to picture what my own bio summary should be like. Me and poetry met by coincidence, if I can put it that way.

SN: Your work falls under which genre and why that specific genre?