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42 BRUTUS: POETRY CHECKLIST 
Key to Dennis Brutus' Collections 
The following numbers refer to the poems that are published in collections
written by Dennis Brutus. 
Sirens, Knuckles, Boots (1963) 
    4, 6, 7, 9, 11-13, 18, 22, 24, 26-28, 30-48 
Letters to Martha (1968) 
    25, 29, 50, 53, 62, 71-120 
Thoughts Abroad (1970) 
    9, 20, 130-53 
Poems from Algiers (1970) 
    123, 154-61 
A Simple Lust (1973) 
    2,14-7, 9, 11-13, 18, 20, 22, 24-48, 50, 53, 61-62, 64-65, 70-120, 122,
124, 
    129-43, 145-47, 149, 151, 153-54, 156, 159, 163, 165, 169-70, 173, 181-82,
    184-217 
China Poems (1975) 
    268-93 
Strains (1975) 
    23, 49, 57, 59-60, 164, 179-80, 183, 220-27, 240-43, 247, 261,294-315
Stubborn Hope (1978) 
    21, 23, 56, 121, 128, 164, 179-80, 183, 209, 218-19, 224-25 243, 256,
258, 
    263-64, 268-69, 271,273-76, 278, 281,283-84, 288-93, 299, 303, 307-10,
    312, 316-20, 339, 345-474 
Salutes and Censures (1984) 
    322, 327, 338, 340-43, 477-78, 480, 488, 490, 493-98, 502-12 
Airs and Tributes (1989) 
    524-25, 527, 529-30, 532, 538-48 
Still the Sirens (1993) 
    526, 528, 533-34, 537, 552, 560, 563, 565-92 
Dennis Brutus' Published Collections 
Airs and Tributes. Ed. Gil Ott; introduction by Samuel Allen. Camden: 
Whirlwind Press, 1989. 
China Poems. Translated into Chinese by Ko Ching Po. Austin: University of
Texas Press, 1975. 
Letters to Martha: And Other Poems from a South African Prison. London: 
Heinemann, 1968. 
Poems from Algiers. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1970. 
Salutes and Censures. Enugu, Nigeria: Fourth Dimension, 1984. 
A Simple Lust: Selected Poems Including "Sirens, Knuckles, Boots,"
"Letters to 
Martha," "Poems from Algiers," "Thoughts Abroad."
London: Heinemann, 1973. 
Sirens, Knuckles, Boots: Poems. Ibadan, Nigeria: Mbari, 1963. 
Still the Sirens. Santa Fe: Pennywhistle, 1993. 
Strains. Ed. Wayne Kamin and Chip Dameron. Austin: Troubador, 1975. 
Stubborn Hope: New Poems and Selections from "China Poems" and
"Strains." London: Heinemann, 1978. 
[John Bruin, pseud.] Thoughts Abroad. Del Valle, Texas: Troubador, 1970.