A hands-on approach to poetry, this workbook assists teachers and students to examine the inner workings of poetry critically and analytically: for students with English as a second language, it encourages students to investigate both the general issues and the technical detail of some 60 poems by mainly South African writers, with some Zimbabwean and Mozambican poems also included. He's a good boy, this one/ Shabbir Banoobhai. Letters to Martha -- 18/ Dennis Brutus. Recollection/ Shimmer Chinodya. Today the war has ended/ Chirwa P. Chipeya. A war-torn wife/ Chenjerai Hove. Firebowl/ Sydney Clouts. In the house of the father/ Jeni Couzyn. Chameleon/ Jeremy Cronin. The beach, evening/ Patrick Cullinan. Paradise/ Achmat Dangor. Poem for my mother/ Jennifer Davis. Small passing/ Ingrid de Kok. The gamblers/ Anthony Delius. Khoikhoi-Son-of-Man/ Modikwe Dikobe. Grave of unknown whiteman/ Modikwe Dikobe. White river, Transvaal/ C.J. Deiver. Busstop/ Michele Freind. Days/ Michele Freind. To Philip/ Elizabeth Spilhaus. The race/ Robert Greig. One small boy longs for summer/ Mafika Pascal Gwala. Our village/ Wopka Jensma. From Not Him/ Wopka Jensma. The African pot/ Fhazel Johennesse. The night train/ Fhazel Johennesse. A young man's thoughts before June the 16th/ Fhazel Johennesse. The rise of the angry generation/ Mazisi Kunene. Group therapy/ Bernard Levinson. Japhta/ Hugh Lewin. Leviathan/ Douglas Livingstone. Sunstrike/ Douglas Livingstone. To a dead elephant/ Douglas Livingstone. Gentling a wildcat/ Douglas Livingstone. In praise of the shades/ Chris Zithulele Mann. For a cent/ Don Mattera. Remember/ Don Mattera. The face of my mother takes the shape/ James Matthews. Sometimes when it rains/ Gcina Mhlophe. The efficacy of prayer/ Casey Motsisi. An abandoned bundle/ Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali. A letter to a son/ Charles Mungoshi. Staffrider/ Motshile wa Nthodi. Poem/ Jorge Rebelo. For Don M. -- Banned/ Mongane Wally Serote. Gran/ Heather Robertson. The actual dialogue/ Mongane Wally Serote. City Johannesburg/ Mongane Wally Serote. Blessing/ Kelwyn Sole. O Kroeskop!/ Adam Small. On learning Sotho/ Christopher van Wyk. In detention/ Christopher van Wyk. Cattle in the rain/ Musaemur Zimunya. The woman at the till/ Tatamkhulu Afrika. The billiard room/ Patrick Cullinan. To learn how to speak/ Jeremy Cronin. Love poem for my country/ Sandile Dikeni. Listening to poems.