The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry
1984 poetry anthology book
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
- Agostinho Neto
- António Jacinto
- Costa Andrade
- Ngudia Wendel
- Jofre Rocha
- Ruy Duarte de Carvalho
Benin (Dahomey)
- Emile Ologoudou
Cameroun
- Simon Mpondo
- Mbella Sonne Dipoko
- Patrice Kayo
Cape Verde Islands
- Onésima Silveira
- Tchicaya U Tam’si
- Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard
- Emmanuel Dongala
- Joseph Miezan Bognini
- Charles Nokan
- Ahmed Tidjani Cissé
- Oumar Ba
- José Craveirinha
- Noémia de Sousa
- Valente Malangatana
- Jorge Rebelo
- Gabriel Okara
- Christopher Okigbo
- Wole Soyinka
- John Pepper Clark
- Frank Aig-Imoukhuede
- Okogbuli Wonodi
- Michael Echeruo
- Pol N Ndu
- Onwuchekwa Jemie
- Aig Higo
- Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
- Niyi Osundare
- Odia Ofeimun
- Funso Aiyejina
- Dennis Brutus
- Mazisi Kunene
- Sipho Sepamla
- Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
- Arthur Nortje
- Mongane Wally Serote
- Antoine-Rober Bolamba
- Mukala Kadima-Nzuji
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.