
Wasafiri 38: World Poetry
Issue 38: Spring 2003
World Poetry
Interviews with Regie Cabico, Ishle Park, Kelwyn Sole and Andreas Serrano
Poems by Pinkie Mekgwe, Hima Raza and Steve Yao
Articles on Caribbean women’s poetry, Black British poetry and contemporary trends in Persian poetry
Reviews of Tayo Olafioye's A Carnival of Looters, Hima Raza's Left-Hand Speak, Niyi Osundare's The Word is an Egg, Nalo Hopkinson's Skin Folk and David Odinaka Nwamadi's The Age of Maggots
Contents
Laura Chrisman and Steve Yao
Editorial
Simon Lewis
Interviews Kelwyn Sole
Kelwyn Sole
Karoo and other poems
Denise deCaires Narain
The Politics and Poetics of Belonging in Caribbean Women’s Poetry
Robert Chrisman
Olmecca and other poems
Richard Dyer
Interviews Andreas Serrano
Hima Raza
Eid Mubarak Uncle Sam and other poems
Steve Yao
Towards a Taxonomy of Hybridity
Steve Yao
A Diary of Apples and other poems
Lisa Yun
Interviews Regie Cabico and Ishle Park
Kwame Dawes
Black British Poetry: Some Considerations
Anjali Nerlekar
Of Mothers, Among Other Things: The Sources of A K Ramanujan’s Poetry
Pinkie Mekgwe
Journeying and other poems
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Contemporary Trends in Persian Poetry
Reviews
Steward Brown
A L McLeod, ed Wings of the Evening: Selected Poems of Vivian Virtue
Kwame Dawes Midlands
Edward Baugh It was the Singing
Pamela Mordecai Certifiable
Lawrence Scott
Patricia Ismond Abandoning Dead Metaphors: the Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott’s Poetry
Meredith Miller
Hima Raza Left-Hand Speak
Tiro Sebina
Pinkie Mekgwe Sunshine at Midnight
Ashok Bery
Jahan Ramazani The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English
E A Markham
Paula Burnett Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics
Maria Cristina Fumagalli The Flight of the Vernacular: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress of Dante
Bole Butake
David Odinaka Nwamadi The Age of Maggots: Poems
Oladipo Agboluaje
Romanus Egudu Prayer of the Powerless
Tope Omoniyi Farting Presidents and Other Poems
Sherally Munshi
Tayo Olafioye A Carnival of Looters by
Tope Omoniyi
Niyi Osundare The Word is an Egg
Hyacinth M Simpson
Nalo Hopkinson Skin Folk
Editorial
Simon Lewis
Interviews Kelwyn Sole
Kelwyn Sole
Karoo and other poems
Denise deCaires Narain
The Politics and Poetics of Belonging in Caribbean Women’s Poetry
Robert Chrisman
Olmecca and other poems
Richard Dyer
Interviews Andreas Serrano
Hima Raza
Eid Mubarak Uncle Sam and other poems
Steve Yao
Towards a Taxonomy of Hybridity
Steve Yao
A Diary of Apples and other poems
Lisa Yun
Interviews Regie Cabico and Ishle Park
Kwame Dawes
Black British Poetry: Some Considerations
Anjali Nerlekar
Of Mothers, Among Other Things: The Sources of A K Ramanujan’s Poetry
Pinkie Mekgwe
Journeying and other poems
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Contemporary Trends in Persian Poetry
Reviews
Steward Brown
A L McLeod, ed Wings of the Evening: Selected Poems of Vivian Virtue
Kwame Dawes Midlands
Edward Baugh It was the Singing
Pamela Mordecai Certifiable
Lawrence Scott
Patricia Ismond Abandoning Dead Metaphors: the Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott’s Poetry
Meredith Miller
Hima Raza Left-Hand Speak
Tiro Sebina
Pinkie Mekgwe Sunshine at Midnight
Ashok Bery
Jahan Ramazani The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English
E A Markham
Paula Burnett Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics
Maria Cristina Fumagalli The Flight of the Vernacular: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress of Dante
Bole Butake
David Odinaka Nwamadi The Age of Maggots: Poems
Oladipo Agboluaje
Romanus Egudu Prayer of the Powerless
Tope Omoniyi Farting Presidents and Other Poems
Sherally Munshi
Tayo Olafioye A Carnival of Looters by
Tope Omoniyi
Niyi Osundare The Word is an Egg
Hyacinth M Simpson
Nalo Hopkinson Skin Folk
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