The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (in an earlier 1963 edition Modern Poetry from Africa) is a 1984 poetry anthology edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier. It consists mainly of poems written in English and English translations of French or Portuguese poetry; poems written in African languages were included only in the authors' translations. The poems are arranged by the country of the poet, then by their date of birth. The following sections list the poets included in the collection.
Angola
- Agostinho Neto (1922 – 1979)
- António Jacinto (1924 – 1991)
- Costa Andrade (not to be confused with Manuel da Costa Andrade)
- Ngudia Wendel
- Jofre Rocha, pseudonym of Roberto Francisco de Almeida (1941)
- Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (1941 – 2010)
Benin (Dahomey)
- Emile Ologoudou
Cameroun
- Simon Mpondo
- Mbella Sonne Dipoko
- Patrice Kayo
Cape Verde Islands
- Onésima Silveira
Congo Republic
- Tchicaya U Tam’si
- Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard
- Emmanuel Dongala
Côte d'Ivoire
- Joseph Miezan Bognini
- Charles Nokan
Gambia
- Lenrie Peters
Ghana
- Ellis Ayitey Komey
- Kwesi Brew
- Kofi Awoonor
- Atukwei Okai
- Kofi Anyidoho
Guinea
- Ahmed Tidjani Cissé
Kenya
- Khadambi Asalache
- Jonathan Kariara
- Jared Angira
Madagascar
- Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
- Flavien Ranaivo
Malawi
- David Rubadiri
- Felix Mnthali
- Jack Mapanje
Mali
- Yambo Ouologuem
Mauretania
- Oumar Ba
Mauritius
- Edouard Maunick
Mozambique
- José Craveirinha
- Noémia de Sousa
- Valente Malangatana
- Jorge Rebelo
Nigeria
- Gabriel Okara
- Christopher Okigbo
- Wole Soyinka
- John Pepper Clark
- Frank Aig-Imoukhuede
- Okogbuli Wonodi
- Michael Echeruo
- Pol N Ndu
- Onwuchekwa Jemie
- Aig Higo
- Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
- Niyi Osundare
- Odia Ofeimun
- Funso Aiyejina
San Tomé
- Alda do Espirito Santo
Senegal
- Léopold Sédar Senghor
- Birago Diop
- David Diop
Sierra Leone
- Syl Cheney-Coker
South Africa
- Dennis Brutus
- Mazisi Kunene
- Sipho Sepamla
- Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
- Arthur Nortje
- Mongane Wally Serote
Uganda
- Okot p'Bitek
Zaire
- Antoine-Rober Bolamba
- Mukala Kadima-Nzuji
Zambia
- Gwendoline Konie