For Women Trying To Breathe and Failing (it's not your fault)

"In this, her latest offering, Batsirai Chigama presents a collection of musings, reflections and observations that highlight specific aspect of women's lives in a way that critiques traditionally accepted views and calls for a reinvention of what it means to be a woman."

- Josephine Muganiwa

"It makes the reader contemplate the many selves that a woman can be."

- Nyadzombe Nyampenza, Newsday

"The poems in this collection vividly bring life to the page as we experience it on a daily basis and help us see and contemplate it, probably in slightly different ways than before."

- Brain Garusa, Book Fantastics

"This is an anthology about rage, accountability, struggle and courage. It's not a pity party but it's rooted in self-awareness and a desire for an alternative narrative (one that is not rooted in oppression and one that women can write themselves)."

- Rutendo Chichaya, RehabAndRelapse

"Chigama chooses to protest against man's abuse of women by actually giving us the alternative man. This is a rare feat! Here is a man that women would prefer..."

- Memory Chirere, University of Zimbabwe