The launch issue of Moving Worlds brings together writers whose histories are tied in various ways to the history of British colonialism. The writers explore new conceptions of shared ground and space and raise questions about the relationship between the global and the local; about identity, language and hybridity; and about the evolution of new aesthetic forms and structures.
Contents
EDITORIAL
Shirley Chew
DRAMA
Michael McMillan, Brother to Brother
Wole Soyinka, King Baabu
FICTION
Shashi Deshpande, The Day Bapu Died
E.A. Markham, A Short History of Employment in Britain
Zafer Senocak, Flying
Aritha van Herk, Type/Caste: A Poetics of Class
POETRY
Maura Dooley, Sexton and Merwin, 1968, I’m Not in Love
Carol Ann Duffy, The Cord
Mimi Khalvati, The Love Barn, Just to Say, The Coat
All Things Bright and Beautiful
John Kinsella, Hölderlin was not Mad
Greg O’Brien, Ode to the Chair, Ode to Sleep
Niyi Osundare, Telling Gift, Letter From The Editor, Meeting
At Bertolt Brecht’s House, Berlin
Ann Sansom, Crookes, Blessing the House, Night Ferry – August 1950
What Friends are for, to stop you going out too far;
Peter Sansom, Night Fishing, Nocturne
Adam Strickson, Two paintings: Oil on oak, Tempera on canvas