The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (in an earlier 1963 edition Modern Poetry from Africa) is a 1984 poetry anthology edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier. It consists mainly of poems written in English and English translations of French or Portuguese poetry; poems written in African languages were included only in the authors' translations. The poems are arranged by the country of the poet, then by their date of birth. The following sections list the poets included in the collection.
Angola[]
Benin (Dahomey)[]
Cameroun[]
Cape Verde Islands[]
Congo Republic[]
Côte d'Ivoire[]
Gambia[]
Ghana[]
Guinea[]
Kenya[]
Madagascar[]
Malawi[]
Mali[]
Mauretania[]
Mauritius[]
- Edouard Maunick
Mozambique[]
Nigeria[]
- Gabriel Okara
- Christopher Okigbo
- Wole Soyinka
- John Pepper Clark
- Michael Echeruo
- Onwuchekwa Jemie
- Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
- Niyi Osundare
- Odia Ofeimun
- Funso Aiyejina
San Tomé[]
- Alda do Espirito Santo
Senegal[]
Sierra Leone[]
South Africa[]
- Dennis Brutus
- Mazisi Kunene
- Sipho Sepamla
- Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
- Arthur Nortje
- Mongane Wally Serote
Uganda[]
Zaire[]
Zambia[]
References[]
- ^ Gerald Moore (30 August 2007). The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. Penguin Books Limited. p. 399. ISBN 978-0-14-191290-5.
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- Poetry anthologies
- African poetry
- 1984 books
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