The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English

The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English

Author: Adewale Maja-Pearce

Publisher: Heinemann International Incorporated

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13:

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This anthology represents some of the best African poetry written in English in the last 30 years. The poets include Wole Soyinka, Dennis Brutus, Kojo Laing, Chenjerai Hove and Gabriel Gbadamosi.


The Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry

The Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry

Author: Stella Chipasula

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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This first major anthology of African women's poetry offers an extensive selection of poetry by women all over the African continent.


The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry

The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry

Author: Ian McDonald

Publisher: Heinemann

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780435988173

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This collection is an invaluable academic selection and will provide a fine introduction for the general reader interested in the lyricism of Caribbean poetry.


As the Crow Flies

As the Crow Flies

Author: Véronique Tadjo

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2012-10-09

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 0143027484

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The narrative of this wonderful gem of a novel weaves together a rich tapestry of characters who are both nameless and faceless, representing everyman and everywoman, to tell stories of parting and return, suffering, healing and desire in a lyrical and moving exploration of the human heart. Like a bird in flight, the reader travels across a borderless landscape composed of tales of daily existence, news reports, allegories and ancestral myths, becoming aware in the course of the journey of the interconnection of individual lives.


Of Chameleons and Gods

Of Chameleons and Gods

Author: Jack Mapanje

Publisher: Heinemann

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780435911942

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A volume of poetry written by a Malawi prisoner of conscience during his ten-year imprisonment.


West African Poetry

West African Poetry

Author: Robert Fraser

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1986-09-04

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780521312233

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Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools. This book examines West African poetry in English and French against the background of oral poetry in the vernacular. Do the roots of such poetry lie in Africa or in Europe? In committing their work to writing, do poets lose more than they gain? Can the immediacy of oral performance ever be recovered? Robert Fraser's account of two centuries of West African verse examines its subjugation to a succession of international styles: from the heroic couplet to the austerity of experimental Modernism. Successive chapters take us through the Négritude movement and the emergence of anglophone free verse in the 1950s to the rediscovery in recent years of the neglected springs of orality, which is the subject of the concluding chapter.


Poems from East Africa

Poems from East Africa

Author: David Cook

Publisher: East African Publishers

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9789966460196

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The spirit of the poetic flowering of the 1960s is encapsulated in this comprehensive anthology. The collection gives voice to some fifty poets from Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, writing in English. The diversity of the interests and styles of the individual poets is illustrated: a blend of the gentle lyricism that is a feature of East African writing. All the major poets are included, and many not so well known. Amongst the best known are Jared Angira, Jonathan Kariara, Joseph Kariuki, Taban Lo Liyong, Okot p'Bitek, and David Rubadiri - one of the editors.