Best Books Study Work Guide: Poems From All Over has been compiled to help learners grasp each poem in Poems From All Over, the prescribed poetry anthology for Grade 11 Home Language (Oxford University Press). The guide has been compiled to the requirements of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) and all important aspects relating to each poem have been covered – in accessible language. This is a workbook in which each poem is discussed and in which learners can answer contextual questions to provide revision for exams and tests.

Poems covered in this workbook:
They Flee From Me by Thomas Wyatt
Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
The Collar by George Herbert
The Author to Her Book by Anne Bradstreet
The Indian Burying Ground by Philip Freneau
London, 1802 by William Wordsworth
There was an Old Man with a Beard by Edward Lear
In an Artist’s Studio by Christina Rossetti
We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound
The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats
Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
The English Are So Nice! by D.H. Lawrence
IX. [Funeral Blues] by W.H. Auden
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers by Adrienne Rich
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
A Far Cry From Africa by Derek Walcott
African Poem by Agostinho Neto
Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney
Eating Poetry by Mark Strand
The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga by Ingrid Jonker
Amagoduka at Glencoe Station by Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali
Reggae Sounds by Linton Kwesi Johnson
Hanging Fire by Audre Lorde
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home by Craig Raine
Da Same, Da Same by Sipho Sepamla
Home News by Ahmad Tidjani-Cissé
Making Our Clowns Martyrs (or, Returning home without chauffeurs)
by Jack Mapanje
Possibilities for a Man Hunted by SBs by Farouk Asvat
“To learn How to Speak” by Jeremy Cronin
Girl Powdering Her Neck by Cathy Song
The Woman by Kristina Rungano
From the Only Speech That Was Not Delivered At the Rally by Ama Ata Aidoo
You Will Forget by Chenjerai Hove
Meeting The British by Paul Muldoon
Small Passing by Ingrid de Kok
Childhood in Heidelberg by Andries Walter Oliphant
Dark Rider by Tatamkhulu Afrika
Oracle of the Povo by Dambudzo Marechera
The Hug by Thom Gunn
The man by Seitlhamo Motsapiviii
I Remember District 6 by Prophets of da City
Housing Targets by Kelwyn Sole
What Will They Eat? by Mzi Mahola
Weather Eye by Isobel Dixon
Random Notes to My Son by Keorapetse Kgositsile
Autumn in Biafra by Chris Abani
Freetown by Ogaga Ifowodo
Home by Merle Collins
Sedition by Cecil Rajendra
From the Air by Michael Cope
To the doctor who treated the raped baby and who felt such despair
by Finuala Dowling
Tomorrow’s Daughters by Lebogang Mashile
The ride by Joyce Chigiya
Calvinia, 1976 by Jacques Rousseau
To My Father, Who Died by Dawn Garisch
Give by Gabeba Baderoon