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| Genre/Form: | Poetry Drama Literary collections |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Clark-Bekederemo, J.P. (John Pepper), 1935- Collected plays and poems, 1958-1988. Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1991 (OCoLC)555783468 |
| Named Person: | John Pepper Clark |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
J P Clark-Bekederemo |
| ISBN: | 0882581287 9780882581286 |
| OCLC Number: | 23583326 |
| Description: | liv, 423 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Three plays -- Song of a goat -- The masquerade -- The raft -- Ozidi: a play -- Ozidi -- The bikoroa plays -- The boat -- The return home -- Full circle -- A decade of tongues: selected poems, 1958-1968 -- From poems -- The imprisonment of Obatala -- Abiku -- Fulani cattle -- For granny (from hospital) -- Night rain -- Agbor dancer -- Girl bathing -- Hands over head -- Horoscope -- Pub-song -- Tide-wash -- The water maid -- New year -- Ibadan dawn -- The year's first rain -- Return of the fishermen -- Ibadan -- Streamside exchange -- Easter -- The outsider -- Ivbie: a song of wrong -- From A reed in the tides -- Flight across Africa -- Emergency commission -- The leader -- His excellency the masquerader -- A child asleep -- Who bade the waves -- Boeing crossing -- Cuba confrontation -- I wake to the touch -- Home from Hiroshima -- Service -- Time's square -- Cave call -- From Casualties -- Song -- Skulls and cups -- Vulture's choice -- The burden in boxes -- The usurpation -- The cockerel in the tale -- The reign of the crocodile -- Seasons of omens -- What the squirrel said -- Leader of the hunt -- Conversations at Accra -- Return home -- The locust hunt --July wake -- Exodus -- August afternoon -- The rat in a hole -- Dirge -- The flood -- Aburi and after -- The beast -- Death of a weaverbird -- Friends -- A photograph in The Observer -- Benin sacrifice -- Party song -- The casualties -- Night song -- Epilogue to Casualties -- Incidental songs for several persons -- Incident at the police station, Warri -- The Lagos-Ibadan road before Shagamu -- A lamp by my window -- To my academic friends who sit tight on their doctoral theses and have no chair for poet or inventor -- Letter from Kampala -- Nairobi National Park -- Addis Ababa -- A god is the cow -- The players -- Bombay -- Calcutta -- State of the union -- Here nothing works -- Progress -- The cleaners -- Return of the heroes -- Easter 1976 -- Victoria Island -- Of sects and fellowships -- A parable -- Phaemon's dog -- Sacrifice -- Song of the retired public servant -- Out of the tower -- Election report -- The patriarchs at the return to civilian rule -- Handshake -- New currency -- One country -- Song of the new millionaires -- Epitaph for Boro -- An epidemic without a name -- Victoria Island revisited -- The plague -- Concerning 'My Command' and other accounts of the Nigerian civil war -- Where do they all go? -- The sovereign -- Postscript -- The playwright and the colonels -- Other songs on other states -- The wreck -- Family meeting for the disposal of the wreck -- Last rights in Ijebu -- A hymn for a friend in his losses -- Prognosis -- Summary treatment -- Translation -- Autumn in Connecticut -- Harvest -- Birthday at Wesleyan, Middletown -- The coming of age -- Miracle in a farm -- Herons at Funama -- Faces -- Mandela and other poems -- Part I: Mandela -- Mandela -- A litter to Oliver Tambo -- The beast in the south -- The death of Samora Machel -- The news from Ethiopia and the Sudan -- Part II: Ceremonies for departure -- Waiting for the dead -- Washing the dead -- Dressing the dead -- Seeing off the dead -- Part III: Departures -- Leaves falling -- A family procession -- A royal welcome -- Death of a lady -- A passing at New Year -- A tale of the hyrax -- If the dead in their state -- Mourner's comfort -- An old man on trial -- A mother's story -- Sweat in the moonlight -- Homecoming -- Stranger in the house -- The last wish -- The order of the dead. |
| Other Titles: | Works. |
| Responsibility: | J.P. Clark-Bekederemo ; with an introduction by Abiola Irele. |
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