A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

"Lingua Franca, Lingua Poetica", The Times Literary Supplement, 16 Sep 1965, p. 787 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200337631/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=1334aa5e. Accessed 17 Dec 2019

[Excerpt]: "As a by-product of the Cardiff poetry conference, here we have about 60,000 English words that 140 young men, of virtually all races, have felt impelled to put down on paper. How different the men must be, what different motives must have compelled them to write not only these particular words but to write words at all... The first feeling this anthology produces, then, is something like awe at the degree of world-wide understanding that it registers. The poets come from twenty-two countries, but nearly all have some dash of that special intuition with language--in this case, with English--that makes a man a poet. That said, of course discriminations must begin... And one or two voices stand out as very rich, strong and personal, like the Nigerian Gabriel Okara..."