Westerly 24:3

Indian Ocean Region Issue          

The Middle East  

Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab For I Am A Stranger
Unsi Al-Haj Is This You Or The Tale?
Unsi Al-Haj Dialogue
Mahmoud Darwish Memoirs Of Everyday Sorrow
Nazar Qabbani You Want
Albert Adib Fidelity
Sameeh Al-Qasim Feast
Abd Al-Wahab Al-Bayyati Lorca Elegies
Nazar Qabbani What Value Has The People Whose Tongue Is Tied?
Sameeh Al-Qasim And Then

East Africa          

David Rubadiri Stanley Meets Mutesa
Okot P’bitek The Woman With Whom I Share My Husband
Taban Lo Liyong Here’s Something I’ve Always Wanted To Talk About
Jose Craveirinha Mamparra M’gaiza
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o The Mubenzi Tribesman
Ayi Kwei Armah Two Thousand Seasons

India     

Keki N. Daruwalla Curfew-In A Riot-Torn City
Keki N. Daruwalla The Epileptic
R. Parthasarathy Approaching Thirty
Kiran N Agarkar The Grasscutters
Chandran Nair Some Day Ivy

South-East Asia

Burmese Traditional Verse

Seintakyawthu Danubyu
Yawe-Shin-Htwe Do Not Wish To Love
Queen Ma Mya Glay Contrition

Thailand  

Angkarn Kalayanapongse It Is Late
Angkarn Kalayanapongse All Over The Sky

Singapore    

Geraldine Heng Back Street, Singapore

Malaysia      

Ee Tiang Hong Disinherited
Ee Tiang Hong Kuala Lumpur, May 1969

Indonesia        

Abdul Hadi La Condition Humaine
Sutardji Calzoum Bachri A Gift Of Love From An Indonesian Gentleman
W. S. Rendra Song Of Bali
Pramoedya Ananta Toer Circumcision

Western Australia    

Bruce Dawe Flight 250 To Perth
Alec Choate Mahatma Gandhi
Terry Tredrea From The Desert And Lake Scene
Andrew Lansdown Arrival
Richard Leaver Indian Ocean Politics: An Australian Perspective
Alec Choate Volcanic Lake