Then of course Ernest Hemingway. Charles introduced me to Hemingway. But when it comes to a sense of the epic I still think Miltons Paradise Lost ranks among the very best. When I read Achebes Arrow of God I couldnt believe what the man had achieved. I wondered if I could do it. Conrads Under Western Eyes was also a great read for me. Now I am hooked on Kahlil Gibran and I guess I try and do some of his stuff here and there.
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26.2.2010
14:22
Which writers influence you?
I remember reading a poem by Tafirenyika Moyana in Parade Magazine in the late 1960s. He called it A Gods Error. It was my first real contact with evocative poetry. Moyanas imagery was just fantastic and his sense of bathos quite unparalleled. He is most probably among my very early influences.