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1 online resource |
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Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; 20 Years of Creative Engagement; Preface; W-W-Woman; Don't ask me again; Doleful Sunsets; Sunshine smile; Letter to the Morning; Peace; Voice of my people; The Toilet; The Fair God; Age of consent; If I had the moon in my hands ... ; Poet's Mind; Land of Hope; The Acholi's Vexation; Our Father; I Am a Poem; Tame My Tears; I am an African; My Tongue; Wed my heart; Conception; Apathy; Why must I pay tax?; Heartbreak; I seek to remember; I will undress now; To be child again; A meaning to birth; Of suicidal mad men and gates of heaven; Catharsis |
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World ArmageddonStrikethrough; Relief; The Inescapable; Traitor; The Lady I Knew; Jungle; Not Real; I wait upon thee; A note on the padlock (the bits of love); Wo-man; Queen of Queens; She's the Sunshine of My Life; Feelings Are Babies; How Life Can Be Had; Hand Me The Burdizzo; If I were to die today; To whom it may concern; If you must know; You Dare Not; Building a Decaying House; Two Global Villagers; Rush of the Nation; The Honourable weevil; My Love; What is it?; Mourn Motherland; Lessons Well Learnt (A Poetry Puzzle); Fare thee Well, Kampala; Broken Souvenir; Bloodlines |
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Bring us the fallenSeamstress; What's Native Can't Harm You; When We Fall; I Shall Ask Grandma to Write Me a Recommendation; The Carcass of Something Hollow & Loud; In the Beginning, a Sigh of Darkness; Art of Love; World Poetry Day Special; Letter for Resty; The club warrior; The Namings; Forgive to Remember; Cloud Escape; The Rally; A Mogul's Epitaph; Regret After Danger; Ugliness; 70 Plus; The Don; Classless; Our perfume; Do Not Rejoice; Behind the Teeth; Kaisiki take me to Kyoga; If death must court me; Recresting the Crane; Equilibrium; Life Without You; I Saw The Typhoon |
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The Little White Kid in December of 1984We were once Young; Teach Me; On her grave; Mother's struggles; Irresponsible Husband; Kaleidoscope!; I Don't Want To Know; Can I not be a thing?; Afro Democracy; Okello's Gripe; The AIDS Virus; Death; The Debate is the Thing; Bricks, Bullets & Brains; A Floral Birthday; Moonrise; Foetal Position; The Young Warrior; Follow Me; Fifteen thousand dollars; To Okot P'Bitek; The Wreck Of A Nation; An Appeal to Nature; If I am to Die; Nature's Orchestra; Man of God; Sin Titulo 91; Sin Titulo 92; Sin Titulo 93; Sin Titulo 94; Sin Titulo 95; My Friend; Atyeno |
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The Great Northern DoctorAll I have; For My Mother; Life History of the Tree; Divide and Share; The Promised Land; Verdict; Deathly Pale; The Bishop is Coming; Who Extinguished the Fire; Wake up Africa; The last Photograph; The man in the mirror; Freedom; Silence; Greet Africa when you return; At Leo Tolstoy's Graveside; V-Power; Poetic Quintet; The A-Z of the Perpetual Father; Intelligent Design; THE EVOLUTIONARY BIBLE; Life is a Gift; Notes on contributors |
| Summary |
This poetry anthology offers a feast and face of poetry as it currently is in Uganda. It is all encompassing and presents a variety of writers ranging from seasoned voices to new ones of great promise. The voices are adventurous, reflective, provocative and even sassy. The poets explore with passion diverse themes from the private to the public realm reassuring the reader that poetry is about everything and is perhaps everything. The pages of this anthology pulsate with rhythmic variations that give unexpected pleasure and provoke the reader to be exceptionally alert. This is a welcome and priceless addition to Uganda Poetry Anthology 2000 |
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Ugandan poetry (English) -- 21st century
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Rwanda.
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FICTION -- General.
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Ugandan poetry (English)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kiguli, Susan N., editor.
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Twongyeirwe, Hilda, editor.
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FEMRITE (Association)
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| ISBN |
9789970480135 |
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9970480138 |
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