Gerald Moore is an independent scholar

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 living in Udine

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, Italy

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. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge

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. He has taught at many universities, including Sussex

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, Hong Kong, Makerere

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, Ife, Port Harcourt

University of Port Harcourt

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, Jos

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 and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His last teaching post was at Trieste

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. He is primarily a scholar of contemporary Africa

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n anglophone

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 and francophone

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 poetry. With Ulli Beier

Ulli Beier

Horst Ulrich Beier was a German editor, writer and scholar, who had a pioneering role in developing literature, drama and poetry in Nigeria, as well as literature, drama and poetry in Papua New Guinea...

, he edited the influential Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry

Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry , is a 1984 poetry anthology edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier. It consists mainly of poems written in English and English translations of French or Portuguese poetry; poems written in African languages were included only in the authors' translations...

, a comprehensive anthology

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.

Major works

• Seven African Writers. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.
• Modern Poetry from Africa (ed. with Ulli Beier). Hammondsworth: Penguin, 1963. Revised as The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, 4th ed., 1999.
• The Chosen Tongue: English Writing in the Tropical World. Harlow: Longmans, 1969.
• Wole Soyinka. London: Evans Brothers, 1971.
• Twelve African Writers. London: Hutchinson, 1980.

As translator:

• Beti, Mongo. The Poor Christ of Bomba. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland, 2005.
• Beti, Mongo. Remember Ruben. Heinemann, London, 1980
• Tchicaya, U Tam'si. Selected Poems. Heinemann, London, 1970
• Lopes, Henri. The Laughing Cry. Readers International, London, 1987