The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry
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Template:Short description Template:Italic title 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.<ref>Template:Cite book 448 pages. First edition 1998</ref> 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.
- 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)
- 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
- Dennis Brutus
- Mazisi Kunene
- Sipho Sepamla
- Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
- Arthur Nortje
- Mongane Wally Serote
Zambia
- Gwendoline Konie<ref name="Moore2007">Template:Cite book</ref>