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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.

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The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry

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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...

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Richard Carl Ntiru

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"If it is true", and "The miniskirt" are included in The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (1999). Richard Ntiru was born near Kisoro in Kigezi District...

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A Leopard Lives in a Muu Tree

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East African Poetry, The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry and Over This Soil, it has been subjected to a wide range of interpretations. While the most...

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List of poetry anthologies

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Poetry, 1982 Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1918–1960) Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, 1984 The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry,...

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Khadambi Asalache

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His poem "Death of a Chief" was included in the Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry in 1995. Asalache received an MPhil in philosophy of mathematics from...

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Ellis Ayitey Komey

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Ghana. The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry List of Ghanaian writers Jahn, Janheinz; Schild, Ulla; Seiler, A. N. (1972). Who's who in African Literature:...

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Yambo Ouologuem

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The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (ed. Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier, 1984). Le devoir de violence has been defended by a number of critics including...

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Classic of Poetry

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The Classic of Poetry, also Shijing or Shih-ching, translated variously as the Book of Songs, Book of Odes, or simply known as the Odes or Poetry (詩;...

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Postcolonial literature

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2010). Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier, eds. Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry Britta Olinde, A Sense of Place: Essays in Post-Colonial Literatures Olivier...

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Funso Aiyejina

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Mediation, The New African Poetry, and The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (1999), in which 1999 publication he was described as "one of Nigeria's...

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Kristina Rungano

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African Women's Poetry (1995), The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (1999) and Step into a World: A Global Anthology of New Black Literature (2000)...

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Western canon

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published as a collection (such as Great Books of the Western World, Modern Library, Everyman's Library or Penguin Classics), presented as a list with an academic's...

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History of poetry

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Poetry as an oral art form likely predates written text. The earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung, employed as a way of remembering...

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Ulli Beier

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**Revised as The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984. Black Orpheus: An Anthology of New African and Afro-American...

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Penguin Books

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v India Book Distributors and Others Penguin Collectors Society Penguin Essentials Penguin Modern Poets Penguin poetry anthologies Penguin Red Classics...

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Gwendoline Konie

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ISBN 978-0-7658-0101-2. Gerald Moore (30 August 2007). The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. Penguin Books Limited. p. 399. ISBN 978-0-14-191290-5. Gwendoline...

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List of winners of the National Jewish Book Award

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Jewish Book Award for English Poetry". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-02-01. "Irving Feldman | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved...

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Poetry

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in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in...

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Felix Mnthali

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was also included in the 1984 Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. His poem "The Stranglehold of English Lit." implicates the English literary tradition...

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Persona poetry

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Persona poetry is poetry that is written from the perspective of a 'persona' that a poet creates, who is the speaker of the poem. Dramatic monologues...

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List of Indian English poetry anthologies

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Nissim Ezekiel with the publication of his first book, A Time to Change, in 1952 heralded in a new era of Modern Indian English Poetry. Since then notable...

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Phillis Wheatley

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considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Born in West Africa, she was kidnapped and subsequently sold into slavery at the age...

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List of Penguin Classics

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The Pearl by John Steinbeck Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry The Penguin Book of French Poetry The Penguin Book of...

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Emmanuel Dongala

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featured in the Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, and he has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. There is a film based on his book Johnny Mad...

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Brown Girl Dreaming

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become a writer. The book has been considered one of the exemplary pieces of modern children’s literature by critics who have analyzed the book and has gained...

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