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Section: Poets in the News
Poet Name: Slater, Francis Carey 'F. C.'
Given Name: Francis Carey
Last Name: Slater
Date of Birth: 1 January 1876
Biography: Francis Carey Slater was a South African poet best known for a rhythm and rhyme in his work that "evoked" the South African experience. He published ten collections of poetry and was featured in "A Treasury of South African Poetry and Verse" (1907).

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Education: University of South Africa
News Items: South African Poetry.; Spring Announcements; Poets from Abroad; Longmans; Power of the Pen in Exile: The Times Profile, Breyten Breytenbach; A Literature in the Making; A New Look in Writing; From veld-lovers to freedom fighters; A Poet of South Africa; Mr F. C. Slater; South African Bard; South African Poet
Events: Conference of the English Academy of Southern Africa at Rhodes University; Death of F. C. Slater
Works: The Collected Poems of Francis Carey Slater; The Centenary Book of South African Verse, 1820-1925; Veld Patriarch and Other Poems; Dark Folk and Other Poems; Selected Poems of Francis Carey Slater; The Collected Poems of Francis Carey Slater; The Centenary Book of South African Verse, 1820-1925; The Drought; The Secret Veld; The Collected Poems of Francis Carey Slater; Veld Patriarch and Other Poems; Selected Poems of Francis Carey Slater; A Book of African Verse, selected and introduced by Guy Butler; From Mimosa Land; Calls Across the Sea; Dark Folk and Other Poems; The Trek; Poets in South Africa: An Anthology; Selected Poems of Francis Carey Slater
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Place of Birth: South Africa, Umjilo
Spatial Coverage: Umjilo
Region: Southern Africa
Type: Poets in the News