ANOTHER ENGLISH INTRODUCTION XIII by Catherine Barnett and Tiphanie Yanique PART ONE AN ANTHOLOGY OF ANTHOLOGIES: THE POEMS GHANA 3 curated by Kwame Dawes In the Dungeon - Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang 5 Cape Coast Town - Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang 6 Adam and Eve and the New Paradise - Kwesi Brew 7 My God of Songs Was III - Koft Awoonor - 8 Sea Time - Koft Awoonor - 9 The Weaver Bird - Koft Awoonor -12 Totems - Ama Ata Aidoo - 13 Godhorse - Kojo Laing - I5 Watu Wazuri Atukwei Okai 18 Rwanda - Ishmael Fift Annobil - 23 Caliban - Abena Busia - 24 Dying Birth - A. W. Kayper-Mensah - 25 Doctrine & Ethics - Koft Anyidoho - 26 THE CARIBBEAN - 29 (The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Monserrat, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Virgin Islands) curated by Ishion Hutchinson with Andre Bagoo, Christian Campbell, Kendel Hippolyte, Nicholas Laughlin, and Tiphanie Yanique from In the Marketplace - Marion Bethel - 31 Iguana - Christian Campbell - 35 from Stone - Kamau Brathwaite - 37 Proem - Martin Carter - 40 Demerara Sugar - Fred D''Aguiar - 41 The Carpenter''s Complaint - Edward Baugh - 42 Yap - Kwame Dawes - 43 To Us, All Flowers Are Roses - Lorna Goodison - 45 What the Oracle Said - Shara McCallum - 49 If We Must Die - Claude McKay - 50 Hello Ungod - Anthony McNeill - 51 Some Definitions for Light (I) - Kei Miller - 52 Epitaph - Dennis Scott - 53 Peppercorn - Olive Senior - 54 A West Indian Poem - Tanya Shirley - 56 Behind God Back - Howard Fergus - 57 Night Vision - Kendel Hippolyte - 59 Saint Joseph at the Music School - Jane King - 62 from The Schooner Flight - Derek Walcott - 63 from Thirteen Studies in Home Economics - Shake Keane - 66 Wind, Water, Fire, Men James .- Christopher Aboud - 70 from Land to Light On - Dionne Brand - 72 from Time is an Unkind Dancer - Vahni Capildeo - 73 They Came in Ships - Mahadai Das - 75 Ode to My Unknown Great-Great-Grandmother - Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming - 77 Peelin Orange - Mervyn Morris - 79 Discourse on the Logic of Language - M. NourbeSe Philip -80 Haiti - Jennifer Rahim - 85 Noontide, Fort Christian - Marvin E. Williams - 87 ''Pon Top Bluebeard Castle Hill - Habib Tiwoni - 88 SOUTH AFRICA - 9I curated by Rustum Kozain Native''s Letter - Arthur Nortje - 93 In Detention - Chris van Wyk - 95 from The Plumstead Elegies Peter Horn - 96 (To learn how to speak] - Jeremy Cronin - 99 from Walking on Air - Jeremy Cronin - 101 Childhood in Heidelberg - Andries Walter Oliphant - 105 Conjunction - Kelwyn Sole - 107 Our Sharpeville - Ingrid de Kok - 114 Small Passing - Ingrid de Kok - 116 Blessing - Kelwyn Sole - 110 Dark Rider - Tatamkhulu Afrika - 127 from Running Towards Us - Jeremy Cronin - 120 Housing Targets - Kelwyn Sole - 130 THE ANTIPODES: AUSTRALIA - 133 curated by Les Murray Bones in a Pot - Mary Gilmore - 135 [I''m like all lovers] - Lesbia Harford - 136 Legend - Judith Wright - 138 The Seasons of Fire - Billy Marshall Stoneking - 140 Among the Mountains of Guang-xi Province in Southern China - Robert Gray - 142 Malta - John Forbes - 145 Alcohol - Peter Goldsworthy - 146 From the other woman left under the pillow - Jennifer Compton - 148 Midday Horizon - Philip Hodgins - 149 Edinburgh - Ashlley Morgan-Shae - 150 Five Bells - Kenneth Slessor - 152 from The End of Sail, 1924-1939 - Alan Gould - 157 Living in M-Is&B-n - Margaret Harvey - I58 Short Fall - Jean Frances - 160 Woodwind - Tom Coverdale - 161 THE ANTIPODES: AOTEAROA / NEW ZEALAND - 163 curated by Hinemoana Baker No Ordinary Sun - Hone Tuwhare - 165 Waka 99 - Robert Sullivan - 167 The Stolen - Marty Smith - 169 On Our Knees or Homage to the Potato - Reihana Robinson - 172 Hotel Emergencies - Bill Manhire - 173 I was a feminist in the eighties - Anne Kennedy - 175 When 1 had a son in his early teens - Lynn Jenner - 178 duck - Bernadette Hall - 179 Yet Another Poem About a Dying Child - Janet Frame - 182 How to live by the sea - Lynn Davidson - 183 Silly Meg Campbell - 184 Snow White''s Coffin - Kate Camp - 185 No Rest - James Brown - 188 Wedding Song - Jenny Bornholdt - 193 Wild Dogs Under My Skirt - Tusiata Avia - 195 INDIA - 197 curated by Sudeep Sen The Writers - Amit Chaudhuri -199 Insomniac - Amit Chaudhuri - 200 Postmortem - Amitava Kumar - 201 Milk Is Good For You - Amitava Kumar - 204 Epigrams for Life After Forty - Arundhathi Subramaniam - 206 How Some Hindus Find Their Personal Gods - Arundhathi Subramaniam - 207 The Piano Lesson - Michelle Cahill - 209 Käli from Abroad - Michelle Cahill - 210 Identity Crisis - Priscila Uppal - 211 Books Do Hold Me at Night - Priscila Uppal - 212 Everyday Things in My Life - Priya Sarukkai Chabria - 214 Counsel - Sandeep Parmar - 221 Invocation - Sandeep Parmar - 223 Sampati - Vikram Seth - 224 For Philippe Honoré - Vikram Seth - 225 CANADA - 227 curated by Todd Swift Death of a Young Son by Drowning - Margaret Atwood - 220 Snow Margaret Avison - 231 from Eunoia Christian Bök - 232 Port Diana Brebner - 236 Monologue for Selah Bringing Spring to Whylah Falls - George Elliott Clarke - 239 Flirrup - Mary Dalton - 241 The Machine Gunner - Steven Heighton - 242 Portrait of the Poet as Landscape - A. M. Klein - 244 In Memoriam: A.

H. Jr. - David McGimpsey - 251 Even the Gulls of the Cool Atlantic - Joan Murray - 259 Barbed Wire - Richard Outram - 260 After Rain - P. K. Page - 261 The Diver - W. W. E. Ross - 263 Diamonds - David Wevill - 264 Lens - Anne Wilkinson - 267 PART TWO CURATORS'' FORUM: NOTES AND COMMENTARY ON THE SELECTIONS Biographical Notes for Regional Curators 273 Essential Poems from Ghana - 277 by Kwame Dawes The Caribbean: Further Tropics - 288 by Ishion Hutchinson with Andre Bagoo, Christian Campbell, Kendel Hippolyte, Nicholas Laughlin, and Tiphanie Yanique Twentieth-Century Poems from South Africa - 311 by Rustum Kozain Favorite Australian Poets - 319 by Les Murray Fifteen Essential Poems from Aotearoa / New Zealand - 321 by Hinemoana Baker Modern English Poetry by Indians - 331 by Sudeep Sen Fifteen Essential Canadian Poems in English - 335 by Todd Swift SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING - 347 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PERMISSIONS - 355.