Robert Homem (born 1972) is a South African poet and publisher.

Karen Press (born 1956) is a South African poet.

Alan James is a South African poet, now living in Australia.

He has been called one of the more western-influenced African poets.

James Matthews is a South African poet, writer and publisher.

Gone are the days when the shades of colonialism were an unending preoccupation of African poets.

Didn't he mean that the African poets should be more widely read?

After all, he's the one who decides whether or not a volume of African poets is given out to be read.

Osundare believes that there is no choice for the African poet but to be political:

"profuse, fluent, versatile" and "the foremost South African poet of his generation."