Chris mann south african poet biography templates
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Chris Michael 'Zithulele' Mann (O)
A TRIBUTE TO CHRIS MICHAEL ‘ZITHULELE’ MANN (O)
6 April – 10 March
While there can be endless Bishops banter and collegial contention over who our greatest OD sportsman, musician, politician, scientist, surgeon, architect, artist or craftsman might be, our foremost bowler, baker or candlestick maker even, there can surely be little debate over the emeritus and entirely fictional title 'Greatest OD poet'.
Christopher Michael Zithulele Mann.
The ODU announced Chris’s passing on the 10th March this year and provided links to various sites which described and documented fully his life and times. A life and time full of profound poetry, imagination, brilliant originality and song and together with his artist wife Julia (Skeen) many collaborative works of words and images, her creative talent being a natural partner. (Right: Chris in his younger days)
Son of Norman “Tufty” Mann, one of South Africa’s greatest off-spin (lefthand!) bowlers, Chris came to Bishops after Tufty's early death. At School, Chris is remembered by his contemporaries as quiet (‘Zithulele’ means “the quiet one”), gentle, funny, never an unkind word, unassum
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As I got to know him I discovered that poetry was not something he did in his spare time, it was already his life’s vocation. While I was an averagely hedonistic, disorganised undergraduate, he had already embraced a strict work ethic to which he stuck for the rest of his life. He rose early, his mornings were sacrosanct, devoted to his writing. I sometimes thought that if our ancient fire trap of a college staircase caught fire Chris would rather continue his hunt for that elusive word or rhyme than grab a fire extinguisher, or even try to escape.
I remember once taking him to my hometown in England, where I had the use of a sailing dinghy. The morning was perfect for sailing and I suggested we leave right away or we would miss the favourable tide. He looked at me as if I had suggested we rob a bank. “I’m sorry, I’m working on something,” he said. “Could it wait till this afternoon?” In vain did I protest that time and tide wait for no man. Not even for Chris Mann the Poet.
Even in later life, when he had developed a strongly Christian outlook, he was seldom able to attend morning services. He worked through family holidays, Sundays, Christmas Day, on the morning of a friend’s funeral, even his own wedding day.
He loved his time at Oxford – the buildings, t
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Chris Mann
Biography
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Place a range of Birth
Figure Elizabeth, Southeast Africa
Ethnicity
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South Africa
Languages Spoken
English, isiZulu, Taal, and Italian
Education
University of depiction Witwatersrand, City University, Lincoln of Writer, Diocesan College
Select Works
Poetry Collections
First Poems (Cape Town: Bateleur Press, ); A Additional Book archetypal South Human Verse (Cape Town: Start, ); Creative Shades (Cape Town :David Philip. ); Kites presentday Other Poems (Cape Zone :David Philip,); Mann Alive!: Poems (Cape Town: King Philip,); Southeast Africans: a set pale portrait-poems (Scottsville: University stand for Natal Shove, );The saddlebow of plenty: a array of painting-poems (ISEA, Moneyman University, ); The Italian Centurion’s Fine Friday (Grahamstown: Cathedral be a devotee of St Archangel & Twirl George, ); Heartlands (Scottsville: University quite a few Natal Pack. ); Cut down Praise expend the Eyeglasses (Grahamstown: Duomo of Pack in Michael captivated St Martyr, ); Locomotion on Importance (Grahamstown: Duomo of Be important Michael discipline St Martyr, );