The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry

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. 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.

Contents

• Angola
• Benin Dahomey
• Cameroun
• Cape Verde Islands
• Congo Republic
• Cte dIvoire
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Kenya
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mauretania
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• San Tom
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• References