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Best New African Poets 2019 Anthology edited and compiled by: Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, Nsah Mala.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- French
- Multiple languages
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- African poetry (Portuguese).
- African poetry (French).
- African poetry (English).
- Poetry, Modern.
- African poetry (Portuguese)--21st century.
- African poetry (French)--21st century.
- African poetry (English)--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe : Mwanaka Media and Publishing, 2019.
- Summary:
- Over 600 poets have been given voice in this series which was started five years ago, making it an important archive of new African poetry.Every year space is given to as many poets as can be accommodated; it takes at least 10 years to make a poet!.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the editors
- Contributors Bio Notes
- Introduction
- Collaborations
- ReImagining Africa
- A boy in search of Africa
- Make me happy again: The Earth's Song
- ENGLISH POEMS, PART 1
- My Home South Africa
- HOPELESS HOPE
- THE BURIAL
- Night Club In Ilesha
- The Road leads Us To Somewhere
- Slaves and Prisoners
- The Long John Silver
- MAN AND SOCIETY - JUST ONE DROP
- TO THE HEARTS OUT THERE..." -MY HEART
- I QUIT
- PRINCESS POLITICS
- MY ZIMBABWEAN BUNNY
- Please shut the door
- yesterday's poem
- shooting star
- mentor
- The grumpy woman
- ESU'S CALL
- THE SMOKE THAT MUST BE DOUSED
- THE RING WE FIGHT IN
- THE BEAUTIFUL HOLES IN YOUR SHOES
- DEAR MAN, YOU CAN TOUCH MY BREASTS
- SUICIDE PLAYBACK
- on news you cannot keep your children from hearing
- Violence
- Good News
- Sleepy Talk
- Coping
- Sonnet
- Minya, Egypt
- Q &
- A
- as you withhold forgive!
- MAKANA M BỤ NWATA NWANYỊ
- Mourning the Former First Monster
- The Harvest of Fear
- Salesmen of Nightmares
- Cigarettes, Brandy and Kicked in Doors
- The Roots of My Hair
- The Poet &
- the Sea
- Zola
- A Place You'll Never Know
- I feel Her Beauty
- Tell me how it will be
- Walking in the rain
- South Africa
- This car
- BEAUTY BEHELD
- OPEN AIR
- FRAIL TREASURES OF TIME
- BLACKWORTH
- BRANCHES
- ISOLATION MEANS HOME
- Words Untold
- Terrible stench
- Behind it
- Enemies of the Word
- Xenophobia (We Live in Times of Fear)
- Passion
- Party colors
- 7 shapes of God
- Passerby
- Time is a Farce
- Black Hole
- R. I. P.
- I WILL DIE AFRICAN
- MOTIVATION
- The Umbrella and Broom
- Python Dance
- The Last Finger Touch
- Ma
- Body
- THE WORM IN OUR WOMB
- Refuse to Die
- Doppelganger
- My Adze
- Crossing lines
- Rendezvous
- Ma's house.
- 11 cigarettes
- Master of All
- PIECES
- Diamond Town
- love safari
- the mountain and the sea
- INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES AND TRANSLATIONAL POEMS
- GQALANI UKWENZA KWENU MZ' ONTSUNDU
- NDINQWENELA UKUBA YIMBONGI
- NDITHUNYWA NGUMOYA
- Lenguas viperinas
- Viperine languages
- Esencia
- Essence
- Tez libre
- Complexion
- AMIZADE
- FRIENDSHIP
- TRAGÉDIAS VIVAS - ALERTA À HUMANIDADE
- LIVING TRAGEDIES- ALERT TO HUMANITY
- SE ALGUÉM DE MIM GOSTAR
- IF ANYONE LIKES ME
- Nga zendawo na-madji
- Ça part en fumée
- ENGLISH POEMS, PART 2
- The ugly conception of reality
- Untitled
- Tragedy of a new lover
- Adam and Eve
- Another Body
- Two Tastes of the Lord's Prayer after Roasting a Tortoise
- Of buds
- African Pride
- An African Drum
- THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY
- Scattered Seed
- Walking On Eggshells
- Reflections
- DAYS OF THE ANCESTORS
- Pledges
- elegy
- Goodbye
- A Cry In The Wilderness
- Load Shedding Or Load Adding
- J.V.F
- the broad day
- Unbound
- They have a dream
- CJR
- Original Sin
- I AM...
- when we died in the midst of salvation
- a song for mother
- Noxolo
- THE GENESIS
- THE REVELATON
- BLACK
- Lords of Poverty
- THE RAVEN
- Meat me
- STILL WAITING
- Police Officer
- Sudden death
- Tribute to Chiwoniso Maraire
- Child cry
- COLOUR ME
- REBELUTION
- NATURE VIBES
- TEARS ON MY PILLOW
- My dream and You
- The man by the lake
- The fires eating us up from inside
- What if South Africa wasn't a death zone?
- Sitting on tragedy too long
- When Shall We Sing A New Song
- Tin gods
- Beyond Our Bodies
- I CRY FOR YOU
- hybridity
- issues of blood
- birthday stream of consciousness
- Look Who's Talking
- The Words
- The Future
- Maternity (trilogy)
- Arson
- Moonlight
- VULTURES
- THE FLY
- After the winter, or, a woman screaming.
- I don't want to be a figure mothers lean their children into
- Where they can't hurt me and Sylvia Plath
- Caesar Beware
- The Blinded
- The Tattoo
- The First "F" in Zimbabwe is Fuck[ed] up
- Pretoria, 2 February 2018
- 14 February 2018
- PORTUGUESE POEMS
- Mãe
- SAUDADES DE MINHA CASA
- REVOLTAS DO SILÊNCIO
- O amor não é para os fracos
- Amei-te
- Pétalas rasgadas
- Negro
- Inocencia
- INSTANTE NOSSO
- FRENCH POEMS
- L'Espoir est partout
- Apprendre à mourir
- Au bout du fil
- Au gré du vent
- Nouveaux gouvernements en Afrique
- Les Queues d'Etats Africains
- Cartes corporelles et virtuelles
- Back cover.
- Notes:
- 197 poems from over a hundred poets writing in English, Portuguese, French and indigenous African languages.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781779296023
- 1779296029
- OCLC:
- 1273306770
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