The poetry oeuvre of Dennis Vincent Brutus (1924-2009)

Yet somewhere lingers the stubborn hope
thus to endure can be a kind of fight,
preserve some value, assert some faith
and even have a kind of worth.

Dennis Brutus, "Stubborn Hope"

1963 - Sirens Knuckles and Boots. Ibadan, Nigeria: Mbari Productions; Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

1968 - Letters to Martha and Other Poems from a South African Prison. London: Heinemann.

1970 - Poems from Algiers. Austin, Texas: African and Afro-American Studies and Research Center.

1970 - Thoughts Abroad. (ps. John Bruin). Del Valle, Texas: Troubadour Press.

1973 - A Simple Lust. London: Heinemann.

1975 - China Poems. Austin, Texas: African and Afro-American Studies and Research Center.

1978 - Strains. Wayne Kamin and Chip Dameron (eds.). Del Valle, Texas: Troubadour Press.

1978 - Stubborn Hope. Washington, DC: Three Continents Press; London: Heinemann.

1984 - Salutes and Censures. Enugu, Nigeria: Fourth Dimension.

1989 - Airs and Tributes. Camden, New Jersey: Whirlwind Press.

1993 - Still the Sirens. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Pennywhistle Press.

2004 - Remembering Soweto. Lamont B. Steptoe (ed.). Camden, New Jersey: Whirlwind Press.

2005 - Leafdrift. Lamont B. Steptoe (ed.). Camden, New Jersey: Whirlwind Press.

2006 - Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader. Aisha Kareem and Lee Sustar (eds.). Chicago: Haymarket Books; Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.

2010 - (70 unpublished poems). Worcester, MA: Worcester State College (pending).