SUB-ZERO
“Desolation!” the wind cries, its lament
An abandonment of dead leaves, fish bones,
Their twisted forms scratch my boots
Before the storm.
For the sake of sanity, roots sleep
Forgetting winter’s fallout
And men are not made to wear wild fur
Nor feel the edge of the white fang.
There is another time
In a dream of indolence
Where summer sands and sighing palms
Surf the somnolent sun.
It is far from here,
Not this land where none is young.
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About Bart Wolffe
BART WOLFFE Biography
After many years in the advertising industry in Zimbabwe, working with both electronic media and print, Bart developed as an independent writer and theatre practioner responsible for running workshops throughout the countries of southern Africa until he left in 2003.
Organisations he has worked with include the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, the British Council, The Goethe Institute, Alliance Francaise and many more.
He brought a team of actors to London and Edinburgh to perform six of his plays in 1997. His work has been recognised widely with awards and reviewed positively in many international publications.
His own portfolio, which includes plays and novels and poetry, reflects his passion for giving voice to the voiceless, to minorities and dispossessed individuals. In June 2010, Bart undertook 8 workshops with refugee children from schools around Croydon and at the end of the same year, performed an evening of his writings “The Night of the Underdog” at Ruskin House, Croydon. During Refugee Week, the V&A Museum hosted an event where he gave a reading of his poetry accompanied by a traditional mbira player from Zimbabwe.
A chapbook essay on exile and alienation was published under the title of FLOTSAM by Exiled Writers Ink, for whom Bart has written a great deal in recent years including reviews, poems and feature work on the suppression of the artist’s voice in Zimbabwe, one of the primary reasons why he had to leave Africa behind. He has been interviewed on BBC Radio since being here as well as by German Radio and an Independent Zimbabwean radio station broadcasting from London to Africa.
He was a resource provider in workshops with schools in Norfolk, also with a community-based organisation that goes by the name of Moot and whose underlying philosophy concerns staying human in the city.
His published plays under the cover of AFRICA DREAM THEATRE incorporate a body of work that express themes such as loss of innocence, discrimination, intolerance and alienation.
Since leaving Zimbabwe in 2003, Bart spent several years in Germany before settling in England.
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