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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985
Clark, John Pepper 'J. P.'
Biography
Nigeria
Birth date: 1935-04-06
Birth location:
Kiagbodo,
Nigeria
Born in 1935 in Nigeria, John Pepper Clark is a celebrated Nigerian poet, journalist, playwright, and scholar. Clark founded "The Horn," a student literary journal at University of Ibadan that many other African poets would come to publish in. He later would come to be the co-editor of another literary journal, "Black Orpheus." Clark's poetry often reveres the landscape of Africa.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Pepper-Clark
Education
- University of Ibadan
- Princeton University
News Items (24)
- Paths to Refinement (1969-07-24) | Mentioned Poet
- Scorning the Sonnet (1983-09-16) | Poet
- Nigerian traditions (1972-01-07) | Poet
- Poetry from Africa (1963-08-02) | Poet
- Ways into Africa (1969-01-02) | Poet
- Books of the 1960s-2 (1965-09-16) | Poet
- The Power of Print, II: What Do African Intellectuals Read? (1972-05-12) | Mentioned Poet
- Writing in West Africa: A Chance to Adapt and to Experiment (1962-08-10) | Poet
- Literature as Symptom (1963-01-11) | Poet
- Leading source for Negro art (1971-10-01) | Poet
- The Literature of the Civil War (1972-03-03) | Mentioned Poet
- Full Analysis of the War Awaited (1972-03-06) | Poet
- Eng. Lit. Expands (1969-12-04) | Poet
- African Writers Series reaches 100 (1972-02-25) | Poet
- Africa speaks (1972-04-09) | Poet
- Elite Performances (1983-01-14) | Poet
- Commonwealth writing from Africa (1965-09-16) | Poet
- The Primacy of the Performer (1976-09-17) | Poet
- A Literature in the Making (1935-05-31) | Academic
- Autumn Pick (1965-08-23) | Mentioned Poet
- Theatres (1965-08-29) | Mentioned Poet
- Four cities jaunt (1965-09-12) | Mentioned Poet
- Four cities jaunt (1965-09-12) | Mentioned Poet
- Africa: mask & face (1965-09-19) | Mentioned Poet
Events (1)
Related Works (52)
- Understanding African Poetry: A study of Ten Poets (1982) (Poet)
- The Example of Shakespeare (1970) (Poet)
- The Example of Shakespeare (1970) (Work Author)
- Poems from Black Africa (1963) (Poet)
- Leopold Sedar Senghor (1963) (Mentioned Poet)
- Long Drums and Cannons (1968) (Mentioned Poet)
- A History of Neo-African Literature (1969) (Mentioned Poet)
- No Longer at Ease (1960) (Poet)
- Arrow of God (1964) (Poet)
- The Day Natal Took Off: A Satire (1963) (Poet)
- The Voice (1964) (Poet)
- The Second Round (1966) (Poet)
- The Interpreters (1964) (Poet)
- Sirens, Knuckles, Boots. Mbari Publications, 1963. (1963) (Poet)
- Lenrie Peters: Poems (1964) (Poet)
- Heavensgate (1962) (Poet)
- Limits (1964) (Poet)
- The Chosen Tongue: English writing in the tropical world (1970) (Mentioned Poet)
- Poems (1962) (Poet)
- Poems (1962) (Work Author)
- A Reed in the Tide (1965) (Poet)
- A Reed in the Tide (1965) (Work Author)
- Casualties: Poems 1966–68 (1970) (Poet)
- Casualties: Poems 1966–68 (1970) (Work Author)
- Urhobo Poetry (1980) (Poet)
- Urhobo Poetry (1980) (Work Author)
- A Decade of Tongues: Selected Poems 1958–1968 (1981) (Poet)
- A Decade of Tongues: Selected Poems 1958–1968 (1981) (Work Author)
- State of the Union (as J.P. Clark Bekederemo) (1985) (Poet)
- State of the Union (as J.P. Clark Bekederemo) (1985) (Work Author)
- A Lot from Paradise (1999) (Poet)
- A Lot from Paradise (1999) (Work Author)
- A Reed in the Tide (1965) (Poet)
- A Reed in the Tide (1965) (Work Author)
- America, Their America (1964) (Author)
- America, Their America (1964) (Work Author)
Commentaries (2)
- Western Patronization: An Examination of 20th Century Critique of African Writing—a look at 3 TLS Articles. “Voice of the Poets,” by Patrick Dickinson, “The Chosen Tongue: English Writing InThe Tropical World” by Norman Jeffares, and “Scorning the Sonnet” by M.M. Carlin
- [Kwesi Brew's Ideology Misinterpreted ](apdp.commentary.000013)
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