DENNIS BRUTUS

Dennis Brutus will always be associated with excellent poetry with some of his poems – like "A troubadour I traverse" – being familiar with many readers across the continent. He was an academic who was rather persecuted during the apartheid era (spending some time in gaol)

He published many books, mainly poetry, including Sirens Knuckles and Boots, Letters to Martha and Other Poems from a South African Prison, Poems from Algiers (African and Afro-American Studies and Research Institute, 1970), A Simple Lust, China Poems , Salutes and Censures (Fourth Dimension, 1982), Airs & Tributes (Whirlwind Press, 1989), Still the Sirens, Remembering Soweto, ed. Lamont B. Steptoe (Whirlwind Press, 2004).