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
- Agostinho Neto (1922 – 1979)
- António Jacinto (1924 – 1991)
- Costa Andrade (not to be confused with Manuel da Costa Andrade)
- Ngudia Wendel
- Jofre Rocha, pseudonym of Roberto Francisco de Almeida (1941)
- Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (1941 – 2010)
Benin (Dahomey)
Cameroun
Cape Verde Islands
Congo Republic
Côte d'Ivoire
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauretania
Mauritius
Mozambique
Nigeria
- Gabriel Okara
- Christopher Okigbo
- Wole Soyinka
- John Pepper Clark
- Frank Aig-Imoukhuede
- Okogbuli Wonodi
- Michael Echeruo
- Pol N Ndu
- Onwuchekwa Jemie
- Aig Higo
- Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
- Niyi Osundare
- Odia Ofeimun
- Funso Aiyejina
San Tomé
Senegal
Sierra Leone
South Africa
- Dennis Brutus
- Mazisi Kunene
- Sipho Sepamla
- Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
- Arthur Nortje
- Mongane Wally Serote
Uganda
Zaire
Zambia
References
- Beier, Ulli; Moore, Gerald (2007). The Penguin book of modern African poetry. Penguin classics (4th ed.). London: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140424720. OCLC 466152546. 448 pages. First edition 1998
- Gerald Moore (30 August 2007). The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. Penguin Books Limited. p. 399. ISBN 978-0-14-191290-5.