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Black South African Poets of the 1970’s and their Publications

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PoetCritical Writings and InterviewsPublicationsDate
Keorapetsi KgositsileThe word is Here: Poetry from Modern Africa 1971
  For Melba1970
  The Present Is a Dangerous Place to LiveJanuary 1974
  To the Bitter EndJune 1974
  My Name is Afrika, Doubleday1971
 Approaches to Poetry Writing October 1994
  If I Could Sing: Selected PoemsJanuary 2002
  This Way I Salute YouSeptember 2007
Oswald Mtshali
Sounds of A Cowhide Drum, Renoster Press1971
  Fireflames1980
 Soweto Poetry, ed. Michael Chapman  
 Black Poetry in SA, Iowa State Univ  
Mongane Serote Yakal ‘nKomo”, Renoster books1972, Johannesburg
  Tsetlo, AD Donker1974
  No Baby Must Weep, AD Donker1975
  Third World Express, David Philip1992
 Interview with Serote by Duncan Brown  
 In Theoria: Jounal of Social and Political Theory October, 1992
Wopko Jensma Sing for Our Execution, Ophir//Ravan Press1973
  Where White is the Colour, Where Black Is the Number, Ravan Press1974
  Have You seen My clippings1977
Sipho Sepamla
Hurry up to it, AD Donker1975
  The Bues is You in Me, Donker1976
  The Soweto I Love. Collins1977
  Children of the Earth1983
  Selected Poems1984
Mafika GwalaBlack Writing in South Africa 1979
  Jol ‘nKomo1978
  Behold Mama Flowers1978
 Writing as Cultural weapon 1984
Ingoapele Madingoane Afrika My Beginning1979
Chris van Wyk It is Time to Go home, AD Donker1979
Fhazel Johennesse The Rainmaker1979