He was awarded the Ingrid Jonker Prize for best published collection in English in Southern Africa, 1977 with Baobab Street (1977).
[1][2] He was raised in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) where he attended Prince Edward School.
"[3] The project was not sustainable long-term as few international poets and scholars chose to identify with the cultural productions of a pariah state, as Rhodesia had become known.
[4][2] He also contributed articles and literary criticism to a number of publications, including The London Magazine, Country Life, This England, Encounter, The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, The Salisbury Review, The Lady Partisan Review and the scholarly journal, English in Africa.
He also produced and presented programmes for BBC Radio, including Dream of Ophir, and I Haunt the Sunny Streets, a selection of Zimbabwean Poetry.