New Book of African Verse

. 1969 clean bright copy

Master Of The Initiates by Fernando D' Almeida
Sheep Was Bequeathed Me by Fernando D' Almeida
From The Only Speech That Was Not Delivered At The Rally by Christine Ama Ata Aidoo
One Alone: The Bird Sweeps by Kofi Awoonor
The Place by Kofi Awoonor
Rediscovery by Kofi Awoonor
In The Dove-grey Dove-soft Dusk by Dennis Brutus
It Was A Sherded World I Entered by Dennis Brutus
On The Island by Dennis Brutus
Robben Island Sequence by Dennis Brutus
Steeling Oneself To Face The Day by Dennis Brutus
They Hanged Him, I Said Dismissively by Dennis Brutus
Looking For The Spirit At Night by Syl Cheney-coker
Casualties: 27. The Casualties by John Pepper Clark
Incident At The Police Station, Warri by John Pepper Clark
The Lagos-ibadan Road Before Shagamu by John Pepper Clark
Night Rain by John Pepper Clark
The Song Of A Goat, Sels. by John Pepper Clark
Leaf In The Wind by Bernard Dadie
The Lines Of Our Hands by Bernard Dadie
The Rock Behind The Fort by Joe De Graft
Breath by Birago Diop
Viaticum by Birago Diop
Africa by David Diop
Defiance Against Force by David Diop
Times by David Diop
Waves by David Diop
Autobiography by Mbella Sonne Dipoko
The Return From Tangier, Sels. by Mbella Sonne Dipoko
Empty Head by Malick Fall
Schoolboys by Malick Fall
One Small Boy Longs For Summer by Pascal Mafika Gwala
The Fearful Ruins by Mazisi Kunene
The Gold-miners by Mazisi Kunene
The Great Ones by Mazisi Kunene
A Heritage Of Liberation by Mazisi Kunene
In Praise Of Ancestors by Mazisi Kunene
Place Of Dreams by Mazisi Kunene
Sword Eulogizing Itself After A Massacre by Mazisi Kunene
Bring It Here by Bernard Kojo Laing
Jazz Song by Bernard Kojo Laing
Miles: Poem On A Runway by Bernard Kojo Laing
Songs From The Congolese: 6 by Taban Lo Liyong
Amagoduka At Glencoe Station by Mbuyiseni Oswald Mitshali
A Brazier In The Street by Mbuyiseni Oswald Mitshali
The Face Of Hunger by Mbuyiseni Oswald Mitshali
A Newly-born Calf by Mbuyiseni Oswald Mitshali
Pigeons At The Oppenheimer Park by Mbuyiseni Oswald Mitshali
Sunset by Mbuyiseni Oswald Mitshali
Between by Agostinho (augustinho) Neto
Don't Ask Me For Smiles by Agostinho (augustinho) Neto
Kinaxixi by Agostinho (augustinho) Neto
Night by Agostinho (augustinho) Neto
All Hungers Pass Away by Arthur Nortje
Letter From Pretoria Central Prison by Arthur Nortje
Native's Letter by Arthur Nortje
Song For A Passport by Arthur Nortje
Untitled by Arthur Nortje
One Night At Victoria Beach by Gabriel Okara
Were I To Choose by Gabriel Okara
You Laughed And Laughed And Laughed by Gabriel Okara
Come Thunder by Christopher Okigbo
Elegy For Alto (with Drum Accompaniment) by Christopher Okigbo
For Georgette by Christopher Okigbo
Hurrah For Thunder by Christopher Okigbo
Tomatoes by Yambo Ouologuem
The Song Of Lawino: 1. by Okot P'bitek
The Song Of Lawino: 2. by Okot P'bitek
Parachute Men by Lenrie Peters
What Do You Do by Lenrie Peters
You Talk To Me Of 'self' by Lenrie Peters
All Day Long Along The Long Straight Rails by Leopold Sedar Senghor
And The Sun, A Ball Of Fire, Down Sloping ... Dark Red Sea by Leopold Sedar Senghor
Message by Leopold Sedar Senghor
Ndesse by Leopold Sedar Senghor
Taga For Mbaye Dyoh (for A Tama) by Leopold Sedar Senghor
To The American Negro Soldiers by Leopold Sedar Senghor
Your Letter On The Sheet, Beneath The Sweet-smelling Lamp by Leopold Sedar Senghor
A Ballad On The Thing by Sipho Sydney Sepamla
In Search Of Roots by Sipho Sydney Sepamla
The Island by Sipho Sydney Sepamla
The Loneliness Beyond by Sipho Sydney Sepamla
Words, Words, Words by Sipho Sydney Sepamla
For Don M. - Banned by Mongane Wally Serote
No Baby Must Weep, Sels. by Mongane Wally Serote
Ofay-watcher, Throbs-phase by Mongane Wally Serote
When Lights Go Out (for Some Who Are In South African Jails) by Mongane Wally Serote
You Will Walk In Peace by Martial Sinda
Koko Oloro (from A Children's Propigation Chant) by Wole Soyinka
Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka
Three Millet Stalks by Wole Soyinka
To The Madmen Over The Wall by Wole Soyinka
Backside Of The Sun by Jean-baptiste Tati-loutard
Return From Ethiopia by Jean-baptiste Tati-loutard
A Woman Speaks by Jean-baptiste Tati-loutard
I Could Say Shit To My Life by Tchicaya U Tam'si
Rape by Tchicaya U Tam'si
Symbol by Tchicaya U Tam'si
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®