Mummy Eaters

Sherry Shenoda

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• 2023 American Book Award 2022 Longlist for the National Book Awards Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Sherry Shenoda's colle... Lees meer

Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn

Tanella Boni

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• Tanella Boni is a major African poet, and this book, The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn , is her first full collection to be translated into ... Lees meer

Stray

Bernard Farai Matambo

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Zimbabwean writer Bernard Farai Matambo's poems in Stray favor a prose-shaped line as they... Lees meer

Madman at Kilifi

Clifton Gachagua

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• Clifton Gachagua's collection Madman at Kilifi , winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, concerns itself with the immediacy of cul... Lees meer

Breaking the Silence

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• Named a Notable African Book of 2023 by Brittle Paper Breaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since befo... Lees meer

Sacrament of Bodies

Romeo Oriogun

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• 2021 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies , Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a que... Lees meer

Fuchsia

Mahtem Shiferraw

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Ethiopian American Mahtem Shiferraw's Fuchsia examines conceptions of the displaced, disas... Lees meer

In the Net

Mahmoudan Hawad

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• In the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a portion of Tuareg l... Lees meer

Mine Mine Mine

Uhuru Portia Phalafala

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• Mine Mine Mine is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala's family's experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining indus... Lees meer

There Where It's So Bright in Me

Tanella Boni

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• There Where It's So Bright in Me pries at the complexities of difference--race, religion, gender, nationality--that shape twenty-first-century geopoli... Lees meer

Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems

Gabriel Okara

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The fi... Lees meer

The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony

Ladan Osman

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth r... Lees meer

Your Body Is War

Mahtem Shiferraw

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• Your Body Is War contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to be contained ... Lees meer

Modern Sudanese Poetry

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• Spanning more than six decades of Sudan's post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan's most renowned modern poets, larg... Lees meer

The Gathering of Bastards

Romeo Oriogun

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in Poetry 2023 Julie Suk Award Winner 2024 Nebraska Book Award Winner 2024 Midwest Book Award Finalis... Lees meer

In a Language That You Know

Len Verwey

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• South Africa is a complicated, contradictory, and haunted place. Len Verwey captures the trajectory of life in such a place, dealing with childhood, w... Lees meer

Careless Seamstress

Tjawangwa Dema

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• This dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Po... Lees meer

The Rinehart Frames

Cheswayo Mphanza

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2021 Foreword Indies Finalist Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry The poems i... Lees meer

Your Crib, My Qibla

Saddiq Dzukogi

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry Winner Julie Suk Award Winner Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlist Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death o... Lees meer

Keorapetse Kgositsile

Keorapetse Kgositsile

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa's second poet laureate, was a political activist, teacher, and poet. He lived, wrote, and taught in the United Sta... Lees meer

When the Wanderers Come Home

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• Described by African scholar and literary critic Chielozona Eze as "one of the most prolific African poets of the twenty-first century," Patricia Jabb... Lees meer

Exodus

Adeoba

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, 'Gbenga Adeoba's collection Exodus focuses on forms of migration due to the slave trade, ... Lees meer

January Children

Safia Elhillo

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets 2018 Arab American Book Award Winner, Poetry "A taut debut collection of heartfelt poems." -- Publishers ... Lees meer

Think of Lampedusa

Josué Guébo

• Paperback | Engels | African Poetry Book
• A collection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lampedusa, an... Lees meer