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 edit
Benin (Dahomey) edit
Cameroun edit
Cape Verde Islands edit
Congo Republic edit
Côte d'Ivoire edit
Gambia edit
Ghana edit
Guinea edit
Kenya edit
Madagascar edit
Malawi edit
Mali edit
Mauretania edit
Mauritius edit
Mozambique edit
Nigeria edit
San Tomé edit
Senegal edit
Sierra Leone edit
South Africa edit
Uganda edit
Zaire edit
Zambia edit
References edit
- ^ Gerald Moore (30 August 2007). The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. Penguin Books Limited. p. 399. ISBN 978-0-14-191290-5.