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Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is best known for The Fisherman's Invocation (1978), The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771680462Author Iain Sinclair ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Central Avenue PublishingPublisher Central Avenue PublishingWeight(grams) 246g

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In this ode to the earth and all its living creatures, French Djiboutian poet, novelist, and essayist Abdourahman A. Waberi sounds the alarm about our imperiled planet, where "the Sahel rises in you, in me / the Red Sea boils in you, in me / Nunvut is...

Tender poetry chronicling a son's relationship with his mother through her battle with cancer and his move from his homeland of Nigeria to the United States. Winner of the 2023 CAAPP Book Prize from the University of Pittsburgh's Center for African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987028204Author Lesego RampolokengFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Deep South BooksPublisher Deep South Books

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"Where does all the grief go when it's not tugging at your wrist?" Enyegue's debut collection is an ode to girlhood, to Blackness, to generational trauma, sexual assault, and mental health.This collection does not aim to heal anyone who reads it, but...

This selection of Hassan Najmi's poems, translated by Mbarek Sryfi and Eric Sellin, provides an excellent introduction to the work of one of Morocco's foremost poets and to a school of modern verse emerging in the Arab World. Scenes of late night...

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Malaria kills nearly one million people each year. Hundreds of millions more are sickened by the disease, and many of them are permanently disabled. Billions are spent each year to understand it. Researchers know the molecular details of the interaction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583227183Author Ingrid de KokFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 230g

Now available in English for the first time, translated by the poet Jack Hirschman, this beautiful collection of poems by the Algerian poet Jean Senac (1926-1973) was originally published when he was forty-one. Senac represented the hope of the new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920397258Author Colleen HiggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Modjaji BooksPublisher Modjaji Books

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928476306Author Lesego RampolokengFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Deep SouthPublisher Deep SouthWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 8mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789788422297Author Tanure OjaideFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Malthouse PressPublisher Malthouse PressWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

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2024 Nebraska Book Award Winner 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in Poetry 2024 Midwest Book Award Finalist in Poetry 2023 Julie Suk Award Winner Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry shortlist Like I knew, standing on the seashore, the hunger...

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Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry Winner Julie Suk Award Winner Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlistYour Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the language of...

Kofi Awoonor, one of Ghana's most accomplished poets, had for almost half a century committed himself to teaching, political engagement, and the literary arts. The one constant that guided and shaped his many occupations and roles in life was poetry. The...

A unique anthology containing over five decades of protest poetry.'i may have been born on 27 April 1994 - but i was never born free.' Mjiele MsimangContemporary poet Mjiele Msimang captures something of today's zeitgeist in his poem 'born(e) to the...

A Fold in the Map charts two very different voyages: a tracing of the dislocations of leaving one's native country, and a searching exploration of grief at a father's final painful journey. In the first part of the collection, Plenty - "before the fold"...

Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa's second poet laureate, was a political activist, teacher, and poet. He lived, wrote, and taught in the United States for a significant part of his life and collaborated with many influential and highly regarded...