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Best New African Poets 2019 Anthology edited and compiled by: Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, Nsah Mala.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Mala, Nsah, 1988- editor.
Mwanaka, Tendai R., editor.
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 &amp
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 &amp
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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