Out of Bounds
British Black & Asian Poets
Published on 24. May 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-85224-929-8 (ISBN)
Description
From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly charted map of Britain as viewed by its black and Asian poets. It takes the reader on a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland, England and Wales, showing the whole country from a fresh perspective.
This extensive and ground-breaking anthology - with its sudden forks in the road, and its roads not taken - stops off in the Highlands and Islands, skirts the North East coast from Whitley Bay to the sands of Bridlington, wanders lonely through the Lake District and Yorkshire, climbs the mountains of Wales before descending to the Black Country and Southern England. Along the way it takes in lochs and landmarks from Glasgow's George Square and the Angel of the North to the London Eye and the Long Man of Wilmington.
If alienation, unbelonging and dislocation remain key aspects of black and Asian experiences in Britain, what such terms simultaneously conceal are the rich and manifold attachments to place, region, city and landscape offered in Out of Bounds. The poems question the idea of an easy or singular identity, nimbly dealing with the triple bind of ethnic, geographical and poetic belonging.
An alternative A to Z of the nation, a new poetic guide, the book enables us to look again at the UK's local and regional landscapes and the poets who pass through them. Out of Bounds is a definitive anthology that brings together new and established black and Asian writers and places them firmly on the map of what is great and not so great about Britain.
Includes: Shanta Acharya, John Agard, Patience Agbabi, Moniza Alvi, James Berry, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Vahni Capildeo, Merle Collins, Fred D'Aguiar, David Dabydeen, Imtiaz Dharker, Bernardine Evaristo, Khadijah Ibrahiim, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jackie Kay, Tariq Latif, Sheree Mack, Jack Mapanje, E.A. Markham, Daljit Nagra, Grace Nichols, Louisa Adjoa Parker, Michelle Scally-Clarke, Seni Seneviratne, John Siddique, Lemn Sissay, Dorothea Smartt, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, Benjamin Zephaniah, and many others.
This extensive and ground-breaking anthology - with its sudden forks in the road, and its roads not taken - stops off in the Highlands and Islands, skirts the North East coast from Whitley Bay to the sands of Bridlington, wanders lonely through the Lake District and Yorkshire, climbs the mountains of Wales before descending to the Black Country and Southern England. Along the way it takes in lochs and landmarks from Glasgow's George Square and the Angel of the North to the London Eye and the Long Man of Wilmington.
If alienation, unbelonging and dislocation remain key aspects of black and Asian experiences in Britain, what such terms simultaneously conceal are the rich and manifold attachments to place, region, city and landscape offered in Out of Bounds. The poems question the idea of an easy or singular identity, nimbly dealing with the triple bind of ethnic, geographical and poetic belonging.
An alternative A to Z of the nation, a new poetic guide, the book enables us to look again at the UK's local and regional landscapes and the poets who pass through them. Out of Bounds is a definitive anthology that brings together new and established black and Asian writers and places them firmly on the map of what is great and not so great about Britain.
Includes: Shanta Acharya, John Agard, Patience Agbabi, Moniza Alvi, James Berry, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Vahni Capildeo, Merle Collins, Fred D'Aguiar, David Dabydeen, Imtiaz Dharker, Bernardine Evaristo, Khadijah Ibrahiim, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jackie Kay, Tariq Latif, Sheree Mack, Jack Mapanje, E.A. Markham, Daljit Nagra, Grace Nichols, Louisa Adjoa Parker, Michelle Scally-Clarke, Seni Seneviratne, John Siddique, Lemn Sissay, Dorothea Smartt, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, Benjamin Zephaniah, and many others.
Reviews / Votes
'This book really redraws the map of Britain: away with taxonomies of hurt - welcome cartographies of worth' - Fred D'AguiarMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Tyne and Wear
United Kingdom
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
521 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85224-929-8 (9781852249298)
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Persons
JACKIE KAY is one of Britain's leading poets and Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. She is one of Britain's best-known poets, appearing frequently on radio and TV programmes on poetry and culture. Her poetry books have all sold thousands of copies, while her fiction (from Picador) has been massively popular. Her other Bloodaxe titles include The Adoption Papers (1991), Darling: New & Selected Poems (2007) and The Lamplighter (2008). JAMES PROCTER is Reader in Modern English and Postcolonial Literature at Newcastle University. GEMMA ROBINSON is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Stirling. She is the editor of Martin Carter's University of Hunger: Collected Poems & Selected Prose (Bloodaxe Books, 2006).
Content
SCOTLAND
Raman Mundair 28 Shetland Muse
Raman Mundair 28 Stories fae da Shoormal
Raman Mundair 31 Sheep Hill, Fair Isle
Maya Chowdhry 31 Hurry Curry
Sudesh Mishra 33 Suva; Skye
Rizwan Akhtar 33 Aberdonian winter
Jackie Kay 34 Granite
Kukomo Rocks 35 Shopping Trip Tesco in Fife
Roger Robinson 37 Sleep
Roger Robinson 38 Conversion
Maud Sulter 39 Scots Triptych
John Agard 42 The Ascent of John Edmonstone
Sudeep Sen 43 Over May Day
Irfan Merchant 44 The World Is More Real Than It Is
Imtiaz Dharker 45 Campsie Fells
Tariq Latif 46 Western Ferry
Leila Aboulela 47 When I First Came to Scotland...
Maya Chowdhry 48 Four Corners
Imtiaz Dharker 49 Being good in Glasgow
Imtiaz Dharker 50 from Lascar Johnnie 1930: Lascar
Jackie Kay 51 George Square
Suhayl Saadi 51 from paradise gardens carpet
Irfan Merchant 55 Address Tae Chicken Tikka Masala
Gerry Singh 57 India Gate
Gerry Singh 58 Ladhar Bheinn
Vahni Capildeo 59 Shell
Tariq Latif 60 After Lights over Girvan
Bashabi Fraser 61 Do' care
Bashabi Fraser 62 Tartan & Turban
George Murevesi 62 Pleas
Grace Nichols 63 Queen of Sheba replies to Kathleen Jamie
Shampa Ray 66 My India
Tawona Sithole 67 climbing hills
Maud Sulter 70 Flight
Jackie Kay 71 In my country
Irfan Merchant 71 The Indian Upon Scotland
Imtiaz Dharker 72 How to Cut a Pomegranate
NORTH
Fred D'Aguiar 74 from Sonnets from Whitley Bay
Sheree Mack 76 Bonny Baby Contest
Kayo Chingonyi 77 Baltic Mill
Grace Nichols 78 Angel of the North
Cheryl Martin 78 Driving Back From Durham
Kayo Chingonyi 80 Denouement
Jack Mapanje 81 The Seashells Of Bridlington North Beach
Grace Nichols 82 Outward from Hull
Lorna Goodison 83 At the Keswick Museum
Lorna Goodison 84 To Mr William Wordsworth, Distributor of Stamps for Westmoreland
Jackie Kay 86 Windows, Lakes
E.A. Markham 87 Epilogue
Anthony Kellman 88 Roofs of Yorkshire
Seni Seneviratne 89 Frame Yourself
Seni Seneviratne 89 Yorkshire Childhood
Anita Sivakumaran 90 Ice and Ice Age
R. Parthasarathy 91 A Northern City
Jack Mapanje 92 After Celebrating Our Asylum Stories At West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
Khadijah Ibrahiim 93 from A Snapshot History of Leeds:
Michelle Scally-Clarke 97 Granny Betty Scally Bates
Seni Seneviratne 98 A Wider View
Vahni Capildeo 99 from Winter: II. Harewood Estate
Dreadlockalien 99 Fires burn in Bradford, Rockstone ?ing innah Oldham
Linton Kwesi Johnson 100 It Dread Inna Inglan
Tariq Mehmood 102 Mined Memories
Tajinder Singh Hayer 103 Holy Man
Tajinder Singh Hayer 104 A Seasonal Picture
Merle Collins 105 Visiting Yorkshire - Again
Daljit Nagra 107 Raju t'Wonder Dog!
Merle Collins 108 For the Lumb Bank Group, December 1991
Merle Collins 109 The Lumb Bank Children
John Lyons 110 Weather Vane
John Agard 111 Caribbean Eye Over Yorkshire
Daljit Nagra 112 Parade's End
Daljit Nagra 113 Darling & Me
Marie Guise Williams 114 My Mother's Porch #1: First Love at 15
E.A. Markham 115 A Politically-Correct Marriage
E.A. Markham 116 To My Mother, the Art Critic
Debjani Chatterjee 117 Reason for Coming
John Lyons 118 Drinking up the Drizzle
Jackie Kay 118 85th Birthday Poem for Dad
Dorothea Smartt 119 Bringing It All Back Home
Dorothea Smartt 120 A Few Words for Samboo
Dorothea Smartt 121 Today on Sunderland Point
SuAndi 121 Sambo's Grave
Bernardine Evaristo 121 from Soul Tourists
Nabila Jameel 124 The Island in Preston
Nabila Jameel 124 A Book Closer to Home
Lemn Sissay 125 This Train
SuAndi 125 Bolton Safari
John Siddique 126 A Map of Rochdale
John Siddique 127 Industrial Landscape
Jeff Caffrey 127 A Brief History of Manny (2006)
Romesh Gunesekera 128 Turning Point
Lemn Sissay 130 Flags
Lemn Sissay 131 Mill Town and Africa
Raman Mundair 131 Name Journeys
Segun Lee-French 132 So many undone
Segun Lee-French 133 Rain
Kei Miller 134 The only thing far away
Shamshad Khan 135 pot
Cheryl Martin 137 The Coffee Bearer
Pete Kalu 138 Manchester
Pete Kalu 138 The Poet's Song
Maya Chowdhry 139 My Eyes
D.S. Marriott 140 The Day Ena Died
Tariq Latif 141 MoonMen
John Siddique 142 Jali
Benjamin Zephaniah 143 Master Master
Moniza Alvi 144 Arrival 1946
Bernardine Evaristo 145 from Lara: 1949: Taiwo
Jack Mapanje 147 The First Train to Liverpool (En?eld: Liverpool 1, Stoke 0, 1972)
Levi Tafari 148 Toxteth Where I Reside
Imtiaz Dharker 149 Speech balloon
Imtiaz Dharker 151 Mersey Crossing
WALES
Patience Agbabi 154 North(West)ern
Patience Agbabi 154 Postmod:
Eric Ngalle Charles 155 A Mountain and a Sea
Tariq Latif 156 Trefor
John Siddique 157 One New Year's Eve
Aime Kongolo 158 Non-toxic trust
Maggie Harris 158 Cwmpengraig, place of stones
Maggie Harris 159 Llamas, Cwmpengraig
Tinashe Mushakavanhu 160 The Green Man Festival
Moniza Alvi 161 Spring on the Hillside
Grace Nichols 161 Opening Your Book
Moniza Alvi 162 Luckbir
Leon Charles 163 'Tiger Bay' Heart of Wales
Marsden Falcon 164 'It's a big ask...'
Tishani Doshi 165 Memory of Wales
Maggie Harris 166 Montbretia, Wales
Sadi Husain 167 Not in India
Raman Mundair 168 Welsh Postcard
Labi Siffre 169 from An Alien in Cymru:
Derek Walcott 171 from Midsummer: XXXV
MIDLANDS
Kimberly Trusty 174 New Vic Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, ring bell for service
Romesh Gunesekera 175 Frontliners
D.S. Marriott 176 The Ghost of Averages
Panya Banjoko 177 Arriving
Michelle Hubbard 178 Take the girl out of Notts, but you can't take Notts out of the girl!
Sandeep Parmar 179 Archive for a Daughter
Rommi Smith 182 Night River
Hazel Malcolm 182 Blues in the Black Country
Martin Glynn 183 High?elds Style
Carol Leeming 185 High?elds Fantasia
Carol Leeming 186 Valley Dreamers
Roshan Doug 187 Flash of Independence
Roshan Doug 188 Sound Bites
Sue Brown 189 Birmingham
Moqapi Selassie 190 Tellin de stori
Roi Kwabena 192 From Location:Re
Roy McFarlane 193 I found my father's love letters
Benjamin Zephaniah 194 The Big Bang
Benjamin Zephaniah 196 Knowing Me
Kimberly Trusty 198 Alcester Road, Moseley, 50 Bus
Roshan Doug 199 Slow Motion
Derek Walcott 200 from Tiepolo's Hound
Derek Walcott 202 from Midsummer: XXIII, XXXVI, L
Mahendra Solanki 204 In a Jar
David Dabydeen 205 Coolie Odyssey
Jean 'Binta' Breeze 209 Mi Duck
Benjamin Zephaniah 210 I Have a Scheme
SOUTH
Moniza Alvi 214 Rural Scene
Judith Lal 214 Kestrel
Judith Lal 215 Swallowtail Day
Vahni Capildeo 216 Monolithicity
Debjani Chatterjee 217 Visiting E.M. Forster
Hannah Lowe 218 Sausages
Moniza Alvi 219 Go Back to England
Patience Agbabi 222 Weights and Measures and Finding a Rhyme for Orange
Christian Campbell 223 Ballad of Oxfraud
Vahni Capildeo 226 Night in the Gardens
Vahni Capildeo 227 La Poetessa
Saradha Soobrayen 228 On the water meadows
Shanta Acharya 228 The Vulnerable Plot of Green
Shanta Acharya 229 Aspects of Westonbirt Arboretum
Fred D'Aguiar 230 At the Grave of the Unknown African
Kwame Dawes 232 Bristol
Ralph Hoyte 234 Chew Stoke
Derek Walcott 234 from Midsummer: XXXIX
Claude McKay 235 London
Una Marson 236 from Spring in England
George Lamming 236 Swans
Wole Soyinka 238 Telephone Conversation
Kamau Brathwaite 239 from The Emigrants
Merle Collins 243 Soon Come
Roger Robinson 245 Parallel
Fred D'Aguiar 246 Home
Fred D'Aguiar 247 Domestic Flight
Gabriela Pearse 248 Grenada... Heathrow... London
Rajat Kumar Biswas 249 Cambridge
Zhana 250 Apartheid Britain 1985 (Or Kenwood Ladies Pond)
Ashna Sarkar 251 99 Flakes and The End of Something
Gopi Warrier 252 Cricket at Lords
Daljit Nagra 253 Our Town with the Whole of India
Daljit Nagra 254 University
E.A. Markham 255 Ladbroke Grove, '58
Andrew Salkey 256 Notting Hill Carnival, 1975
Benjamin Zephaniah 257 Call It What You Like!
Creswell Durrant 259 Colours
Nii Ayikwei Parkes 259 A Familiar Voice at the V&A Museum
Nii Ayikwei Parkes 261 Common/wealth
John Figueroa 261 Hartlands/Heartlands
John Lyons 264 Home is Weyever Yuh Is
Joy Russell 265 On the Tube
Louise Bennett 268 De Victory Parade
James Berry 270 Beginning in a City, 1948
James Berry 272 Wanting to Hear Big Ben
James Berry 273 Roomseeker in London
James Berry 273 Migrant in London
Kwame Dawes 274 Umpire at the Portrait Gallery
Kwame Dawes 276 Birthright
Moniza Alvi 278 The Double City
Anthony Joseph 279 Who passed on Haymarket, winter night?
Anthony Joseph 280 Blues for Brother Curtis
Claude McKay 281 La Paloma in London
Kayo Chingonyi 282 Andrew's Corner
Kayo Chingonyi 283 Berwick Street
Lorna Goodison 284 Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969
Mahmood Jamal 284 from Two Women
Jay Bernard 285 F12
Pete Kalu 286 Old Radicals
Siddhartha Bose 287 Sex and the City
Siddhartha Bose 288 Swansong, Mile End
Lizzy Dijeh 288 Stratford City
Shamshad Khan 290 Isosceles
Nick Makoha 291 Promise To My Unborn Son
Fred D'Aguiar 292 I Buried My Father a Complete Stranger
E.A. Markham 292 At the Redland Hotel, Stamford Hill
John Agard 294 Toussaint L'Ouverture Acknowledges Wordsworth's Sonnet to Toussaint L'Ouverture
Patience Agbabi 295 The London Eye
Malika Booker 295 Hungerford Bridge
Mahmood Jamal 296 Apples and Mangoes
John Agard 297 Listen Mr Oxford don
Roger Robinson 299 The Wedding Picture
Marsha Prescod 300 Community Policing
Desmond Johnson 301 Mass Jobe
Desmond Johnson 304 Ole Charlie Boy
Linton Kwesi Johnson 307 Five Nights of Bleeding
Linton Kwesi Johnson 309 Di Great Insohrekshan
Jean 'Binta' Breeze 311 The Wife of Bath speaks in Brixton Market
Jacob Sam-La Rose 314 After Lazerdrome: McDonalds, Peckham Rye...
Inua Ellams 315 GuerillaGardenWritingPoem
Amryl Johnson 316 Circle of Thorns
Kimberly Trusty 317 Fireworks, New Cross Road, 1981
John Agard 320 The Embodiment
Maggie Harris 321 Timeline Whitstable
Daljit Nagra 322 Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Grace Nichols 323 Seven Sisters
Grace Nichols 324 Hurricane Hits England
Grace Nichols 325 Long Man
Louisa Adjoa Parker 327 Forest-child
Raman Mundair 28 Shetland Muse
Raman Mundair 28 Stories fae da Shoormal
Raman Mundair 31 Sheep Hill, Fair Isle
Maya Chowdhry 31 Hurry Curry
Sudesh Mishra 33 Suva; Skye
Rizwan Akhtar 33 Aberdonian winter
Jackie Kay 34 Granite
Kukomo Rocks 35 Shopping Trip Tesco in Fife
Roger Robinson 37 Sleep
Roger Robinson 38 Conversion
Maud Sulter 39 Scots Triptych
John Agard 42 The Ascent of John Edmonstone
Sudeep Sen 43 Over May Day
Irfan Merchant 44 The World Is More Real Than It Is
Imtiaz Dharker 45 Campsie Fells
Tariq Latif 46 Western Ferry
Leila Aboulela 47 When I First Came to Scotland...
Maya Chowdhry 48 Four Corners
Imtiaz Dharker 49 Being good in Glasgow
Imtiaz Dharker 50 from Lascar Johnnie 1930: Lascar
Jackie Kay 51 George Square
Suhayl Saadi 51 from paradise gardens carpet
Irfan Merchant 55 Address Tae Chicken Tikka Masala
Gerry Singh 57 India Gate
Gerry Singh 58 Ladhar Bheinn
Vahni Capildeo 59 Shell
Tariq Latif 60 After Lights over Girvan
Bashabi Fraser 61 Do' care
Bashabi Fraser 62 Tartan & Turban
George Murevesi 62 Pleas
Grace Nichols 63 Queen of Sheba replies to Kathleen Jamie
Shampa Ray 66 My India
Tawona Sithole 67 climbing hills
Maud Sulter 70 Flight
Jackie Kay 71 In my country
Irfan Merchant 71 The Indian Upon Scotland
Imtiaz Dharker 72 How to Cut a Pomegranate
NORTH
Fred D'Aguiar 74 from Sonnets from Whitley Bay
Sheree Mack 76 Bonny Baby Contest
Kayo Chingonyi 77 Baltic Mill
Grace Nichols 78 Angel of the North
Cheryl Martin 78 Driving Back From Durham
Kayo Chingonyi 80 Denouement
Jack Mapanje 81 The Seashells Of Bridlington North Beach
Grace Nichols 82 Outward from Hull
Lorna Goodison 83 At the Keswick Museum
Lorna Goodison 84 To Mr William Wordsworth, Distributor of Stamps for Westmoreland
Jackie Kay 86 Windows, Lakes
E.A. Markham 87 Epilogue
Anthony Kellman 88 Roofs of Yorkshire
Seni Seneviratne 89 Frame Yourself
Seni Seneviratne 89 Yorkshire Childhood
Anita Sivakumaran 90 Ice and Ice Age
R. Parthasarathy 91 A Northern City
Jack Mapanje 92 After Celebrating Our Asylum Stories At West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
Khadijah Ibrahiim 93 from A Snapshot History of Leeds:
Michelle Scally-Clarke 97 Granny Betty Scally Bates
Seni Seneviratne 98 A Wider View
Vahni Capildeo 99 from Winter: II. Harewood Estate
Dreadlockalien 99 Fires burn in Bradford, Rockstone ?ing innah Oldham
Linton Kwesi Johnson 100 It Dread Inna Inglan
Tariq Mehmood 102 Mined Memories
Tajinder Singh Hayer 103 Holy Man
Tajinder Singh Hayer 104 A Seasonal Picture
Merle Collins 105 Visiting Yorkshire - Again
Daljit Nagra 107 Raju t'Wonder Dog!
Merle Collins 108 For the Lumb Bank Group, December 1991
Merle Collins 109 The Lumb Bank Children
John Lyons 110 Weather Vane
John Agard 111 Caribbean Eye Over Yorkshire
Daljit Nagra 112 Parade's End
Daljit Nagra 113 Darling & Me
Marie Guise Williams 114 My Mother's Porch #1: First Love at 15
E.A. Markham 115 A Politically-Correct Marriage
E.A. Markham 116 To My Mother, the Art Critic
Debjani Chatterjee 117 Reason for Coming
John Lyons 118 Drinking up the Drizzle
Jackie Kay 118 85th Birthday Poem for Dad
Dorothea Smartt 119 Bringing It All Back Home
Dorothea Smartt 120 A Few Words for Samboo
Dorothea Smartt 121 Today on Sunderland Point
SuAndi 121 Sambo's Grave
Bernardine Evaristo 121 from Soul Tourists
Nabila Jameel 124 The Island in Preston
Nabila Jameel 124 A Book Closer to Home
Lemn Sissay 125 This Train
SuAndi 125 Bolton Safari
John Siddique 126 A Map of Rochdale
John Siddique 127 Industrial Landscape
Jeff Caffrey 127 A Brief History of Manny (2006)
Romesh Gunesekera 128 Turning Point
Lemn Sissay 130 Flags
Lemn Sissay 131 Mill Town and Africa
Raman Mundair 131 Name Journeys
Segun Lee-French 132 So many undone
Segun Lee-French 133 Rain
Kei Miller 134 The only thing far away
Shamshad Khan 135 pot
Cheryl Martin 137 The Coffee Bearer
Pete Kalu 138 Manchester
Pete Kalu 138 The Poet's Song
Maya Chowdhry 139 My Eyes
D.S. Marriott 140 The Day Ena Died
Tariq Latif 141 MoonMen
John Siddique 142 Jali
Benjamin Zephaniah 143 Master Master
Moniza Alvi 144 Arrival 1946
Bernardine Evaristo 145 from Lara: 1949: Taiwo
Jack Mapanje 147 The First Train to Liverpool (En?eld: Liverpool 1, Stoke 0, 1972)
Levi Tafari 148 Toxteth Where I Reside
Imtiaz Dharker 149 Speech balloon
Imtiaz Dharker 151 Mersey Crossing
WALES
Patience Agbabi 154 North(West)ern
Patience Agbabi 154 Postmod:
Eric Ngalle Charles 155 A Mountain and a Sea
Tariq Latif 156 Trefor
John Siddique 157 One New Year's Eve
Aime Kongolo 158 Non-toxic trust
Maggie Harris 158 Cwmpengraig, place of stones
Maggie Harris 159 Llamas, Cwmpengraig
Tinashe Mushakavanhu 160 The Green Man Festival
Moniza Alvi 161 Spring on the Hillside
Grace Nichols 161 Opening Your Book
Moniza Alvi 162 Luckbir
Leon Charles 163 'Tiger Bay' Heart of Wales
Marsden Falcon 164 'It's a big ask...'
Tishani Doshi 165 Memory of Wales
Maggie Harris 166 Montbretia, Wales
Sadi Husain 167 Not in India
Raman Mundair 168 Welsh Postcard
Labi Siffre 169 from An Alien in Cymru:
Derek Walcott 171 from Midsummer: XXXV
MIDLANDS
Kimberly Trusty 174 New Vic Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, ring bell for service
Romesh Gunesekera 175 Frontliners
D.S. Marriott 176 The Ghost of Averages
Panya Banjoko 177 Arriving
Michelle Hubbard 178 Take the girl out of Notts, but you can't take Notts out of the girl!
Sandeep Parmar 179 Archive for a Daughter
Rommi Smith 182 Night River
Hazel Malcolm 182 Blues in the Black Country
Martin Glynn 183 High?elds Style
Carol Leeming 185 High?elds Fantasia
Carol Leeming 186 Valley Dreamers
Roshan Doug 187 Flash of Independence
Roshan Doug 188 Sound Bites
Sue Brown 189 Birmingham
Moqapi Selassie 190 Tellin de stori
Roi Kwabena 192 From Location:Re
Roy McFarlane 193 I found my father's love letters
Benjamin Zephaniah 194 The Big Bang
Benjamin Zephaniah 196 Knowing Me
Kimberly Trusty 198 Alcester Road, Moseley, 50 Bus
Roshan Doug 199 Slow Motion
Derek Walcott 200 from Tiepolo's Hound
Derek Walcott 202 from Midsummer: XXIII, XXXVI, L
Mahendra Solanki 204 In a Jar
David Dabydeen 205 Coolie Odyssey
Jean 'Binta' Breeze 209 Mi Duck
Benjamin Zephaniah 210 I Have a Scheme
SOUTH
Moniza Alvi 214 Rural Scene
Judith Lal 214 Kestrel
Judith Lal 215 Swallowtail Day
Vahni Capildeo 216 Monolithicity
Debjani Chatterjee 217 Visiting E.M. Forster
Hannah Lowe 218 Sausages
Moniza Alvi 219 Go Back to England
Patience Agbabi 222 Weights and Measures and Finding a Rhyme for Orange
Christian Campbell 223 Ballad of Oxfraud
Vahni Capildeo 226 Night in the Gardens
Vahni Capildeo 227 La Poetessa
Saradha Soobrayen 228 On the water meadows
Shanta Acharya 228 The Vulnerable Plot of Green
Shanta Acharya 229 Aspects of Westonbirt Arboretum
Fred D'Aguiar 230 At the Grave of the Unknown African
Kwame Dawes 232 Bristol
Ralph Hoyte 234 Chew Stoke
Derek Walcott 234 from Midsummer: XXXIX
Claude McKay 235 London
Una Marson 236 from Spring in England
George Lamming 236 Swans
Wole Soyinka 238 Telephone Conversation
Kamau Brathwaite 239 from The Emigrants
Merle Collins 243 Soon Come
Roger Robinson 245 Parallel
Fred D'Aguiar 246 Home
Fred D'Aguiar 247 Domestic Flight
Gabriela Pearse 248 Grenada... Heathrow... London
Rajat Kumar Biswas 249 Cambridge
Zhana 250 Apartheid Britain 1985 (Or Kenwood Ladies Pond)
Ashna Sarkar 251 99 Flakes and The End of Something
Gopi Warrier 252 Cricket at Lords
Daljit Nagra 253 Our Town with the Whole of India
Daljit Nagra 254 University
E.A. Markham 255 Ladbroke Grove, '58
Andrew Salkey 256 Notting Hill Carnival, 1975
Benjamin Zephaniah 257 Call It What You Like!
Creswell Durrant 259 Colours
Nii Ayikwei Parkes 259 A Familiar Voice at the V&A Museum
Nii Ayikwei Parkes 261 Common/wealth
John Figueroa 261 Hartlands/Heartlands
John Lyons 264 Home is Weyever Yuh Is
Joy Russell 265 On the Tube
Louise Bennett 268 De Victory Parade
James Berry 270 Beginning in a City, 1948
James Berry 272 Wanting to Hear Big Ben
James Berry 273 Roomseeker in London
James Berry 273 Migrant in London
Kwame Dawes 274 Umpire at the Portrait Gallery
Kwame Dawes 276 Birthright
Moniza Alvi 278 The Double City
Anthony Joseph 279 Who passed on Haymarket, winter night?
Anthony Joseph 280 Blues for Brother Curtis
Claude McKay 281 La Paloma in London
Kayo Chingonyi 282 Andrew's Corner
Kayo Chingonyi 283 Berwick Street
Lorna Goodison 284 Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969
Mahmood Jamal 284 from Two Women
Jay Bernard 285 F12
Pete Kalu 286 Old Radicals
Siddhartha Bose 287 Sex and the City
Siddhartha Bose 288 Swansong, Mile End
Lizzy Dijeh 288 Stratford City
Shamshad Khan 290 Isosceles
Nick Makoha 291 Promise To My Unborn Son
Fred D'Aguiar 292 I Buried My Father a Complete Stranger
E.A. Markham 292 At the Redland Hotel, Stamford Hill
John Agard 294 Toussaint L'Ouverture Acknowledges Wordsworth's Sonnet to Toussaint L'Ouverture
Patience Agbabi 295 The London Eye
Malika Booker 295 Hungerford Bridge
Mahmood Jamal 296 Apples and Mangoes
John Agard 297 Listen Mr Oxford don
Roger Robinson 299 The Wedding Picture
Marsha Prescod 300 Community Policing
Desmond Johnson 301 Mass Jobe
Desmond Johnson 304 Ole Charlie Boy
Linton Kwesi Johnson 307 Five Nights of Bleeding
Linton Kwesi Johnson 309 Di Great Insohrekshan
Jean 'Binta' Breeze 311 The Wife of Bath speaks in Brixton Market
Jacob Sam-La Rose 314 After Lazerdrome: McDonalds, Peckham Rye...
Inua Ellams 315 GuerillaGardenWritingPoem
Amryl Johnson 316 Circle of Thorns
Kimberly Trusty 317 Fireworks, New Cross Road, 1981
John Agard 320 The Embodiment
Maggie Harris 321 Timeline Whitstable
Daljit Nagra 322 Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Grace Nichols 323 Seven Sisters
Grace Nichols 324 Hurricane Hits England
Grace Nichols 325 Long Man
Louisa Adjoa Parker 327 Forest-child