AF/2/BRO - The Broken Word

AF/2/BRO

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The Broken Word

2008

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'The Broken Word' (2008) is a long narrative poem about Kenya's Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s, seen through the eyes of an English schoolboy. It was shortlisted for the 2008 John Llewellyn-Rhys Memorial Prize and the 2009 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and won a Somerset Maugham Award and the 2008 Costa Poetry Award.

Chapters in the published work are as follows:

1. What was happening
2. Dinner (1)
3. Dinner (2)
4. Facing Ngai
5. Night fires
6. Screening
7. Compound nine
8. Who were these people?
9. Rain
10. Falling asleep

This file consists of 29 sub-files:

AF/2/BRO/1 Chapter 1 (8 leaves MS)
AF/2/BRO/2 Chapter 1 (4 leaves (MS)
AF/2/BRO/3 Chapter 1 (1 leaf MS)
AF/2/BRO/4 Chapter 1 (3 leaves MS)
AF/2/BRO/5 Dinner 1 [Chapter 2] (2 leaves MS)
AF/2/BRO/6 Dinner 2 [Chapter 3] (1 leaf MS)
AF/2/BRO/7 Chapter 3 cont. (4 leaves MS)
AF/2/BRO/8 [Chapter] 5. Night fires (12 leaves MS)
AF/2/BRO/9 Chapter 6 Screening (4pp. MS)
AF/2/BRO/10 Chapter 7 Compound Nine (14pp. MS)
AF/2/BRO/11 Chapter 8 The Farm (1 leaf MS)
AF/2/BRO/12 Chapter 9 Rain (11pp. MS)
AF/2/BRO/13 Chapter 10 (1 leaf MS)
AF/2/BRO/14 Equipped in an open-backed vehicle … (p.7-11 MS)

AF/2/BRO/15 Chapter 1 (9 leaves TS with corrections)
AF/2/BRO/16 Chapter 1 (9 leaves TS).
AF/2/BRO/17 Chapters 1-4 (TS with corrections)
AF/2/BRO/18 Chapters 1-4 (TS with corrections)
AF/2/BRO/19 Chapters 1-4 (TS with corrections)
AF/2/BRO/20 Chapters 1-4 (TS with corrections)
AF/2/BRO/21 Chapter 5 (12pp. TS with corrections)
AF/2/BRO/22 Chapter 6 (4pp. with corrections)
AF/2/BRO/23 Chapter 7 (14pp. with corrections)
AF/2/BRO/24 Chapter 8 (3pp. TS with corrections)
AF/2/BRO/25 Chapter 9 (3pp. TS with corrections)
AF/2/BRO/26 Chapter 10 (10pp. TS with corrections)

AF/2/BRO/27 The Broken Word (73pp. TS with corrections)
AF/2/BRO/28 The Broken Word (67 pp. TS)
AF/2/BRO/29 The Broken Word (73 pp. TS)

See also AF/1/TRU/2/3 Black notebook, 2006/7.