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• Second Crop

  A. Moore reviews "African Writing Today," an anthology edited by Ezekiel Mphahlele. Excerpt: "In a field where the number of anthologies threatens to outstrip the output of original work, where the same stories and poems tend to crop up again and again, and where collection of texts is too often offered as a substitute for critical evaluation, the appearance of a new anthology seems to present a suitable occasion for demanding the purpose of it all... At the other end of Africa, Ama Ata Aidoo of Ghana discovers her [compassion] by feeling for the thread of their speech as it strives to catch hold of meaning in a dark stream of events..."
• Royal Festival Hall

  "Sunday 28 April 7 p.m. Variety Poetry"
• Love, charity, and fantasy

  Full Text: "Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo. Republished as an African classic, this book traces the reactions of a girl from Ghana who earns an opportunity to travel. She arrives in Germany and is confused. It is the first time she has felt that her colour is a badge of difference. Although pleased by contacts with other students from different countries, she is puzzled by the over friendly approaches of a German hausfrau. What mystifies her most is that such unhappiness can exist in the middle of such luxury. Written in a mixture of prose and of poetry, the book captures the naivety and freshness of a first experience (Longman 3.50)."
• Heinemann

  [Excerpt]: "The Literature and Thought of Modern Africa. Claude Wauthier. The second edition of this renowned work has been updated to include the new intellectuals: Wole Soyinka, Ayi Kewi Armah, Chinua Achebe and Ngugi among others... African Writers Series. Latest additions to this world famous series, now comprising over 200 titles. The Journey Within. I. N. C. Aniebo.... The Fisherman's Invocation: Poems by Gabriel Okara..."
• Exhibitions and Lectures

  [Full Text]: "ICA Special poetry reading, July 29, 8 p.m. JANOS PILINSZKY, TED HUGHES, CAROLYN KIZER & DENIS BRUTUS. Bookable 930 6393 Nash House. The Mall. S. W. t. open daily 11-10.30."
• Dillons the Book Store

  "Meet an uncommon wealth of talent."
• Multiple Display Adertising Items

  "Faber & Faber"
• Faber & Faber

  Roy Campbell "Adamastor."
• A Tragic Poet: A Talking Bronco. By Roy Campbell

  "Roy Campbell is a tragic poet, and to say that implies that he is either a very considerable one or a pretentious nonentity...The best way to review poetry not already familiarly--and especially good new poetry--is to quote it, and that is the way I intend to review Mr. Roy Campbell's new volume of verse." "
• Poet's Portrait's

  Mr. Campbell's first book, "The Flying Terrapin," exuberated with a fervour that made me compare it to "Endymton."
• Roy Campbell

  "Roy Campbell was not born to die in bed."
• The Flaming Terrapin

  "I was sitting one day in the old Cafe Royal one evening with Thomas Wade Earp, whose acquaintance I had lately made."
• The Ariel Poems

  "The Gum Trees." By Roy Campbell
• Tried Favourites

  "Mr. Moult continues to compile his annual anthology of contemporary poetry."
• Benn Books

  "Coming Next Week"
• Benn Books

  "Augustan Poets"
• New Poetry

  "Choosing a Mast." By Roy Campbell
• Bravo, Tauro!

  "Mr. Campbell has a passion for bulls of the fighting kind."
• Round the Stands

  "BORISWOOD--Stand A 8"
• "A New Poet": Miss Sitwell's Review

  "To the Editor of The Sunday Times."
• A Matador among Poets

  "The object of this brief note is to draw attention to the certain qualities of Mr. Roy Campbell, and to illustrate by quotation the heights to which his poetry can rise."
• Hilaire Belloc

  "Mr. Bellocs's first collection of Verses and Sonnets was published in 1896."
• The Criticism of a Poet

  "The unknown warrior inspired a good deal of early post-war verse but none of it was worth, in my eyes, Herbert Palmer's single line:- Cover my face: my name is sacrifice."
• Back to the Eighteenth Century

  "The trouble with some modern poets is that the kind of poetry they prefer aesthetically is ill suited to the themes they want most to treat."
• 'Bound with Garlands'

  "I was brought up to believe that a sonnet was definable."