num_pages: 272
description: This volume contains poems from 1966 to 1989. A Shuttle in the Crypt, written while Soyinka was in prison, maps out the course trodden by a mind under solitary confinement. Idanre, a poem on the creation myth of Ogun, was written for the Commonwealth Arts Festival, while Mandela's Earth presents a selection of poems that are of searing urgency.
language: English
title: Selected Poems
titlecomplete: Selected Poems
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 25
publisher: Methuen