Songs Of Africa: Collected Poems

by Alan Paton, Douglas Livingstone (Foreword), Edward Callan (Introduction)

218 pages, Hardcover

First published October 30, 1995

About the author

Alan Stewart Paton was a South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), Too Late the Phalarope (1953), and the short story The Waste Land.

Reviews

[Jim Agustin · Rating 3 out of 5]

The political poems are good, but nothing spectacular. I like the simplicity in most of his writing, but wish he pushed the poetry more.