The Poetry Society Celebrating our centenary

Afro-Asian-Caribbean Focus

(Volume 80, No 4, Winter 1990/91)

Editor

Peter Forbes

Afro-Asian-Carribean Focus

Derek Walcott: The Poet in the Theatre; Robert Crawford on Walcott's Omerso

Poems by Edward Baugh, Faustin Charles, John Lyons; David Dabydeen on two Carribean anthologies; poem by Martin Carter

Jackie Kay: Severe Gale 8 (poem); Alastair Niven on Jackie Kay's Adoption Papers; poem by James Berry

Stewart Brown on Black poets on tape; poems by John Agard, Lorna Goodison, Ian McDonald; Matt Holland on John Agard; poems by John Gilmore, Grace Nichols, Christine Craig, E.A. Markham, Lemn Sissay

Michael Hulse on Nissim Ezekiel's Collected Poems; poems by Sujata Bhatt, Amarjit Chandan, Romesh Gunesekera, Ketaki Kushari Dyson

John Welch on South Asian poetry; poems by Kamala Das, Tariq Latif, Meena Alexander; Vayn Naidu on Indian women poetrs; Philip Gross on Vikram Seth

Eva Salzman on Mimi Khalvati and Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Roger Garfitt reports on his British Council workshops in Zambia; poems by Jacob Chirwa, Tanure Ojaide; Giles Foden on The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English and other collections; poem by Odia Ofeimun

Alastair Niven on the detained Malawian poet, Jack Mapanje; John Haynes on African poetry collections; poems by Niyi Osundare, Kojo Laing, Leopold Sedar Senghor

Reviews

John Whitworth on Kenneth Baker's other job; Peter Levi on Craig Raine's essays; Sheenagh Pugh on Patricia Beer, John Latham, Ruth Fainlight, Ruth Padel, Jeremy Reed, Christopher Meredith

John Greenign on Charles Tomlinson; Peter Sirr on Adam THorpe; Ian McMillan on John Whitworth's Faber Book of Blue Verse; Don Paterson on Andrew Waterman, Brian Jones, James Greene, Mick North, Bernard O'Donoghue; Sylvia Kantaris on Sheenagh Pugh, Anthony Howell, Anna Adams, Jean Earle

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