Publisher: Mwanaka Media and Publishing, Zimbabwe
Pages: 486
Year: 2019
Category: Anthologies & Collections, Literature, Poetry
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm
Best “New” African Poets 2018 Anthology follows volumes
in 2017, 2016 and 2015. In this fourth volume of these continent-wide
anthologies of African poetry we have work from 154 African poets from
over 30 African countries and the African Diasporas. There are poems in
English, French, Portuguese, Sepedi, Shona, Yoruba, and Asante Twi
languages. In 2018 there was a notable increase in the number of entries
with memorable novelties regarding poetic experimentation: some of the
poets have daringly sliced up words playing around with the spatial and
structural patterns of their texts on paper. This may be described as
both textual and visual poetry. Reading the poems becomes a journey with
many paths, where the reader walks according to poetic rhythms and the
hesitating breaks of action verbs and enjambments.
£33.00
About the editors
Tendai. R. Mwanaka is a multi-disciplinary artist from Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. His oeuvre of works touches on non-fictions, essays, poetry, plays, fictions, music, sound art, photography, drawings, paintings, video, collage, mixed media, inter-genres and inter-disciplines. His work has been published in over 300 journals, anthologies and magazines in over 27 countries.
Nsah Mala is a poet and writer from Mbesa, Cameroon. He writes in
Iteanghe-a-Mbesa, English, and French. He has published five poetry
collections: Chaining Freedom, Bites of Insanity, If You Must Fall Bush,
CONSTIMOCRAZY: Malafricanising Democracy, and Les Pleurs du mal
(French). In 2016, he won the Ministry of Arts and Culture Short Story
Prize in Cameroon and le Prix Littéraire Malraux in France in 2017. As a
writer for children, his published picture books include: Andolo – the
Talented Albino (English), Andolo – l’albinos talentueux (French), and
Le petit Gabriel commence à lire (French). He translated the picture
book Be a Coronavirus Fighter (Yeehoo Press) into French as Un
Combattant du Coronavirus in March 2020. Nsah Mala’s picture book, What
the Moon Cooks, will be published in spring 2021 by POW! Kids Books
(USA).
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