Best New African Poets 2023 Anthology : Anthologie des Meilleurs Nouveaux Poètes Africans 2023/ Antologia Dos Melhores Nov / Tendai Mwanaka and Hélder Simbad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mwanaka, Tendai R., author.

Simbad, Hélder, 1987- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe : Mmap Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, [2023]

Summary:

From 2015 to 2023 we have been able to issue out, yearly, an anthology of Africa poets, through 9 years of publishing this beautiful anthology of the best contemporary African poets and in the process we have published and archived over 1000 African poets.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

About editors

Contributors' Bio Notes

Introduction

POETRY

SOUL

WE ARE HUMANS TOO

INE NDEPAPA

IT SURPRISES ME (English translation)

ABASUNGU BANEMBO

WHITES WITH INCISIONS (English translation)

INSEKU

WEEDS (English translation)

Dear Golden Eyed Lady

Missive To Saharan Princess

The Secret

The sightseer

Four by Four

Beyond the War

THIS IS OUR TIME

THE BOAT OF LIFE

PREDATOR STILL ROAMS AROUND

THAT LUCK CHARM

AFRICA DON'T BLINK

Made in the oven

I call it my freedom

The future

Dream of Desperation

Spirit of the Heart

Men of Africa

THIS NIGHT IS A HALLOWEEN NIGHT

THE RECONCILIATORY VOICE

THE STRENGTH OF HOPE

EPICEDIUM

THE DIFFERENT SIMILARITY

I MISS YOU

THE WIND BRINGS SONGS

WHY DO THEY SAY THE DAY BREAKS ?

SEASON'S EXTRACT

war reads like a poem

when home is the only place

the silence that nip the good bud

to catch an oyster

sangoma

finding Sugar Man

WALL

PSYCHE IS NATURAL

THE TRUE REASON

THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN

I HAVE LOST MY FREEDOM

WHEN HOME CALLS, YOU SHOULD ANSWER

My Father

For the love of my Father

I Still Remember

My Mother Suffered

gurkha

39 &amp

41

erasure

Adventure

Life in the smartphone age

Wishes

BABA VAENDA

DESPERATION

THE A.I COUP

Sex and Poetry

Waiting for the Rain

Wet dreams from the heavens

IHEANYICHI

COUPLING

as the rain pitter-pattered

MILITOCRACY

WHAT A COLD WORLD

CELESTIAL REFLECTION

what 'll they be seeing?

calling

IT WILL BE OKAY

A BRIGHT FACE, A GUIDING LIGHT

The Stench

On The Prowl

The Same Dog

A Hooligan's Dark Paradise

Aborted at Birth

Where Do We Go When We Sleep

Burnt Offerings

After life

HIS Majesty the QUEEN

Wakeful.

She Melting Me To Love

You're A True Friend Of Yourself

The universe

Ode to a pen

Zim now

Beautiful

I am a winner!

Altered spirits

Like the starry night sky

A change of taste

Good

Darling star!

Time flies!

A PLACE CALLED HOME

PYRAYERS END HERE

GOD BLESS YOUR SINS

MY COUNTRY

I WISH IF I HAD WINGS

THE BLACK CRY TO MOTHER AFRICA

Stops in a Winged Bracket

Hands Sardined in Gold

On The Journey of Returning

The End of the Road

The Songs for and of a Benedict

Tyrant Time

The Marvel of the Dandelion

I live in Fear

On Turning Fifty

The Daddy Issues

WEAVER BIRDS

THE MAGICIAN IN MY BED

You Have Come Again

BAD DEBTS

MASQUES OF DECEIT

TO DISCOMBOBULATE

HOW MY BROTHER PRONOUNCES HOME

MY HOME, IS NOT A CADAVER OF ROSES

BREAKING

Pieces of Mirrored Light

Sandra

Hope Awake

Requiem: Lekki Tollgate

Summarised Women

a poem// in which freedom means my father &amp

his inadequacies

I WHINED MY WAIST ROUND THE WORLD, A WHILE AGO

SILTING 6

/!!!\

in this city

times like this

epitaphs

Bulawayo

ELES SABEM!?

MARCAS DO SÉCULO XX

RAZÕES PARA VIVER &amp

PARA MORRER

SENTI MENTALISTA(S) GLORIOSO(S)

HOMEN

FONTE

nas pegadas do pássaro

dimoyo

Magras silhuetas

Meu Coração é sua Praça

Bolo em Fatias

Delírios no pulmão da noite (Alias ou aluas?)

Lunática comiseração

Rugas no Sol

Uigense

Intensa Paixão

A cada minuto

Sou uma criança perdida

Muro que há por detrás do mundo

guardiã da vida

plano eleito oral

ESQUIZOFRÊNICO TEMPO II

DUAS PALMAS DE PURGATÓRIO

BICHINHOS NA PRAIA

ZUNGUEIRAS "NO" MUSSULO

NÃO AO RACISMO

VAZIO

ÁFRICA ERRANTE

MENTE

NÃO JAMAIS

MISTÉRIO

QUARENTONA

AR TE FILOSOFANDO

RUPTURA AOS PATRIOTAS

RUPTURA AOS GOVERNANTES.

LABIRINTO

SERENATA ANORGÁSMICA

Lweji

Mulemba solitária

Grotte secrète

Élèves...

Souvenir

Village des fous

A la belle aux cieux

Cantique africain

Bronzitude

Le feu du milieu

Réminiscences

L'Afrique contaminée

A toi Afrique

J'ai rêvé de toi Afrique

Oublier

Best New African Poets Collaborations

Best New African Poets Interview

Mmap New African Poets Series

Back cover.

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ISBN:

1-77933-157-6

OCLC:

1427068245