A Fallen Citadel and Other Poems
A Fallen Citadel and Other Poems

Author: Imali J. Abala

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9956727393

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A Fallen Citadel and Other Poems is a powerful collection of over forty prose poems. The poems cover an array of issues ranging from the crisis that ensued after the 2007-2008 elections in Kenya to other social issues: loss of identity, poverty, hopelessness, and AIDs. These poems are powerful, vivid, full of imagery, and delightful. Some begin tragically, but end with hope; they begin with an everyday event, but end with a philosophical question about the meaning of life; and others are not only disturbing, but also thought provoking. Abala's poetic maneuvers in this collection are bound to delight and fascinate any reader.

Sword & Citadel
Sword & Citadel

Author: Gene Wolfe

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1994-10-15

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 0312890184

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A Major work of twentieth-century American Literature.

Nostalgic Waves from Soweto
Nostalgic Waves from Soweto

Author: Sol Rachilo

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 0981439802

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"Packed with more than 70 of Rachilo's cutting-edge poems mainly about events that unfolded before the world and the country in 1976 and 1977, this collection is like a journey into the past, which many of us would want to forget. Nostalgic Waves from Soweto is quirky, poignant, sardonic, haunting and sometimes just coldly observant. The volume contains striking images of a Soweto known only to those who lived, loved and suffered there. Rose Francis, director of African Perspectives Publishing, which is publishing the volume, believes it will be an invaluable addition to the growing body of literature on Soweto in the 1970s and its multi- facetted but often unknown life and characters. "His poetry is a prism reflecting the life, characters, thoughts and hopes of the time, sometimes from unexpected perspectives," she says. "It is bound to evoke nostalgia in those who knew the Soweto of those days and introduce newcomers to unknown dimensions of this famous, and infamous, township""--Sowetan.

Lava Lamp Poems
Lava Lamp Poems

Author: Colleen Higgs

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 1920397256

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Colleen Higgs launched Modjaji Books, the first publishing house for southern African women writers, in 2007. Her first collection of poetry, Halfborn Woman, was published in 2004. She lives in Cape Town with her partner and her daughter.

I Want to Dance & Other Poems
I Want to Dance & Other Poems

Author: Tanure Ojaide

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13:

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A new poetic work by one of Nigeria's foremost contemporary poets, I Want to Dance is an extended song cycle, divided into three parts. In the song, the poetic voice undergoes a journey of experience from west to east and night to day and reflects upon moving away from and returning to home.

Companion of Life
Companion of Life

Author: Munyaradzi Mawere

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2012-10-15

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9956728934

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This is a dense, erudite collection of finely crafted poems that powerfully reflect on vices such as war, bad governance, deforestation, dissipation, greed, oppression and cruelty. The poems also tackle other important phenomena of life such as love, anxiety, weather, time, politics, morality, economics, justice, culture and the environment. The virtue of these finely tuned poems does not only lie in their philosophical questioning, but their artistic merit and audacious reflection of issues pertinent in human life of all ages. While some of the poems provoke amusement and others tears, the corpus of the collection educates through entertainment. The poetry penetrates into the greater depths of the publics psyche to appraise, query, empty and expose their concerns in such a manner that should hopefully make those who cause or ignite human tribulations to rethink their actions and those haunted by the same to stay vigilant.

My Lattice, and Other Poems
My Lattice, and Other Poems

Author: Frederick George Scott

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-16

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Lattice, and Other Poems" by Frederick George Scott. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Please, Take Photographs
Please, Take Photographs

Author: Sindiwe Magona

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0980272955

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Sindiwe Magona's poems conspire with her. Even years after being written, they still seem warm from her lips, and it is this residue of her telling them that draws you into their confidence. From the languid innocence of the poems about her village, to her shattering images of Africa at war, Magona leads you headlong into her fireside circle where archetypes flicker like shadows on a face that has seen, and been. Please, Take Photographs is defiant and tender, horrific and homely, at once irreverent, outspoken and beautiful.

Beware Millipede
Beware Millipede

Author: Zondiwe Mbano

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 9990887225

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The poetry in this collection spans thirty years of writing, a period highlighted by great socio-political change in Malawi. Zondiwe Mbano poems have been published in The Fate of Vultures: New Poetry from Africa (BBC award winning poetry), Haunting Wind: New Poetry from Malawi, and in Operations and Tears. His short stories have appeared in The Unsung Song: An Anthology of Malawian Writing in English, and in WASI Magazine.