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Cameroon anthology of poetry / Bole Butake.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Butake, Bole.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cameroonian poetry (English).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this carefully thought-through anthology, Bole Butake brings Cameroonian poets of different generations, gender, regions, backgrounds and interests into conversation not only among themselves but more especially with poets from other parts of Africa and the world. This is a testament on the universality of poetry. It is an invitation for those in tune with poetry to reaffirm its magic and to spread the warmth of its embrace in celebration of a common and boundless humanity.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- I - CAMEROON
- Margaret Afuh
- To Countryside
- My Mother
- The Drunkard
- Nol Alembong
- The Hamadryad
- Some Day For Sure
- Exchanging Planes in Mid-Air
- Alobwed'Epie
- No Past, No Present, No Future
- The Election Day
- The Monument
- Gregory Achu Ashi
- The Spineless Heir
- A Dream
- Ben Besingi
- At the Grave-Yard
- The Countryside in May
- Bate Besong
- The Beauty of Exile
- The Grain of Bobe Augustine Ngom Jua
- Bole Butake
- My Woman Is a Tiger
- Restrictions
- Lament of a Warrior
- Emmanuel Fru Doh
- Bamenda Chop Fire
- Rain Clouds
- Christmas Atem Ebini
- Freedom We Wrote
- Bernard Nsokika Fonlon
- The Fear of the Future Years
- Gem of the Highlands
- Bongasu Tanla Kishani
- A Native Song
- The Eternal Tatoo
- Buma Kor
- One Fine Morning
- The Coming of the Waves
- Silhouette
- Patrick Sam Kubam
- The Last Legacy
- Sankie Maimo
- The Bugle Call
- The Harvest
- Judgement
- John Menget
- I Gree
- Ba'Bila Mutia
- Dilemma of a Supermarket
- Germanus Canisius Nchanji
- A Tale of Lalang Grass
- Woman On A Skiff In The Ndian River
- Juliana Makuchi Nfah
- Seasons
- Sunset on the Waves
- Ngong Kum Ngong
- Medicinal Brandy
- Wonderful Artist
- The Handwriting
- John Nkemngong Nkengasong
- Mfoundi Faery
- In The Toilet
- Wailing In The Jungle
- Susan Nkwentie
- Twilight
- The Early Rains
- Mesack Fongang Takere
- Weaverbirds
- Pitt Tah Tawang
- Great Cattle Egret
- Patrick Tata
- Immaculate Feet
- The Teacher
- Mathew Takwi
- When Shall We Dance
- Cherished Devil
- Twin Streams
- Fale Wache
- Lament of a Mother
- II - AFRICA
- Koffi Awoonor
- Songs of Sorrow
- John Pepper Clark
- Olokun
- Night Rain
- Agbor Dancer
- Susan Lwanga
- Daybreak
- Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
- The Face Of Hunger.
- The Birth Of Shaka
- Christopher Okigbo
- Heavensgate, I
- Lenrie Peters
- Mine Is the Silent Face
- Wole Soyinka
- Telephone Conversation
- Abiku
- IV THE BEGINNING
- III - England &
- America
- W. H. Auden
- Epilogue
- William Blake
- Song
- To The Muses
- The Tyger
- Edmund Blunden
- Almswomen
- Robert Bridges
- London Snow (1880)
- Robert Browning
- Meeting at Night
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Ne Plus Ultra
- Kubla Khan
- William Collins
- Ode Written In 1746
- Countee Cullen
- Heritage
- Emily Dickinson
- 328
- 986
- Robert Frost
- The Road Not Taken
- Mowing
- Range Finding
- Robert Graves
- Recalling War
- Julian Grenfell
- Into Battle
- Thom Gunn
- St. Martin and the Beggar
- Thomas Hardy
- Afterwards
- Channel Firing
- Shut Out That Moon
- Work
- Frances E. W. Harper
- The Slave Auction
- Bury Me in a Free Land
- H. Herrick
- To Daffodils
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- God's Grandeur
- Spring
- Langston Hughes
- The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
- Cultural Exchange
- James Weldon Johnson
- O Black and Unknown Bards
- J. Keats
- To Automn
- D. H. Lawrence
- Piano
- Louis Maneice
- The Creditor
- John Manifold
- Fife Tune
- Claude McKay
- The Tired Worker
- Tiger
- If We Must Die
- George Meredith
- From "The Woods of Westermain"
- Dudley Randall
- Ballad of Birmingham
- Siegfried Sassoon
- The Rear-Guard
- Dreamers
- SIR C. Spring-Rice
- I Vow To Thee, My Country
- Lord Tennyson
- Crossing The Bar
- Edward Thomas
- The Owl
- Oscar Wilde
- The Harlot's House
- Walt Whitman
- To A Locomotive in Winter
- William Wordsworth
- It Is A Beauteous Evening
- I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
- William Butler Yeats
- On The Subjugation Of Switzerland
- The Second Coming
- No Second Troy
- The Magi
- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9789956790401
- 9956790400
- 9789956790883
- 9956790885
- OCLC:
- 849923935
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