Michael Chapman

Michael Chapman (1945) is an English literature scholar and a well-known figure in South African letters. He is affiliated to the Durban University of Technology and is an Emeritus Professor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. His numerous publications include A Century of South African Poetry (1981), Southern African Literatures (1996), Art Talk, Politics Talk (2006) and Green in Black-And-White Times: Conversations with Douglas Livingstone (2016). In 2018 he was awarded the Human Sciences Research Council Medal for the Social Sciences and Humanities.

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The New Century of South African Poetry

A revised and updated edition of this much-loved poetry anthology which was first published in 2002. This new edition of The New Century of South African Poetry now includes 125 new poems, with the addition of a fifth section covering works produced by poets who have made their mark since the early 2000s.

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