Concert of Voices Book

Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)

Girls at War (story)

Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana)

No Sweetness Here (story)

Meena Alexander (India-USA)

Port Sudan (poem)

Agha Shahid Ali (India-USA)

Snowmen (poem)

Lillian Allen (Jamaica-Canada)

Rub A Dub Style Inna Regent Park (poem)

Mulk Raj Anand (India)

Duty (story)

Jean Arasanayagam (Sri Lanka)

I Have No Country (poem)

Louise Bennett (Jamaica)

Anancy an Ticks (folk tale)

Neil Bissoondath (Trinidad-Canada)

Man as Plaything, Life as Mockery (story)

Dionne Brand (Trinidad-Canada)

Return (poem)

Amelia (poem)

Edward Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados)

Red Rising (poem)

Dennis Brutus (South Africa)

By the Waters of Babylon (poem)

Buhkwujjenene (Canada)

Nanaboozhoo Creates the World (folk tale)

Willi Chen (Trinidad)

Assam's Iron Chest (story)

Marlyn Chin (Hong Kong-USA)

Elegy for Chloe Nguyen (1955-1988) (poem)

Austin Clarke (Barbados-Canada)

The Man (story)

Wilkie Collins (UK)

A Sermon for Sepoys (essay)

Saros Cowasjee (India-Canada)

His Father's Medals (story)

Rienzi Crusz (Sri Lanka-Canada)

Roots (poem)

In the Idiom of the Sun (poem)

Fred D'Aguiar (Guyana-UK)

Home (poem)

A Son in Shadow (Memoir/Essay)

Cyril Dabydeen (Guyana-Canada)

Mother (poem)

David Dabydeen (Guyana-UK)

Catching Crabs (poem)

The New Poetry (poem)

Kamala Das (India)

An Introduction (poem)

The Looking Glass (poem)

Jack Davis (Australia)

White Fantasy—Black Fact (story)

Pay Back (story)

Anita Desai (India)

Surface Textures (story)

Eunice de Souza (India)

Catholic Mother (poem)

Return (poem)

Nissim Ezekiel (India)

In India (poem)

Lorna Goodison (Jamaica)

Survivor (poem)

Lesson Learned from the Royal Primer (poem)

Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)

Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet? (story)

Jessica Hagedorn (Philippines-USA)

The Song of Bullets (poem)

Kaiser Haq (Bangladesh)

Strange Pleasures (poem)

Claire Harris (Trinidad-Canada)

Backstage at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary (poem)

Death in Summer (poem)

Wilson Harris (Guyana-UK)

Kanaima (story)

Bessie Head (South Africa)

The Collector of Treasures (story)

A. D. Hope (Australia)

Man Friday (poem)

Nalo Hopkinson (Caribbean-Canada)

A Habit of Waste (story)

Keri Hulme (New Zealand)

Hooks and Feelers' (story)

Witi Ihimaera (New Zealand)

This Life Is Weary (story)

Sally Ito (Canada)

Sisters of the Modern Mind (poem)

Arnold Itwaru (Guyana-Canada)

arrival (poem)

roomer (poem)

separate ways (poem)

Eva Johnson (Australia)

Murras (Hands) (play)

Pauline Johnson (Canada)

The Cattle Thief (poem)

Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua-USA)

On Seeing England for the First Time (essay)

Thomas King (Canada)

A Coyote Columbus Story (story)

Rudyard Kipling (UK)

The White Man's Burden (poem)

Ernest Crosby (USA): The Real "White Man’s Burden" (poem)

Joy Kogawa (Canada)

What Do I Remember of the Evacuation (poem)

When I Was a Little Girl (poem)

Alex La Guma (South Africa)

A Matter of Taste (story)

Fiona Tinwei Lam (Canada)

The Hyphenated (poem)

Shirley Geok-lin Lim (Malaysia-USA)

Ah Mah (poem)

Passports (poem)

Jayanta Mahapatra (India)

The Abandoned British Cemetery at Balasore (poem)

Freedom (poem)

The Portrait (poem)

Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand-UK)

The Garden Party (story)

Lee Maracle (Canada)

Charlie (story)

Dambudzo Marechera (Zimbabwe)

Black Skin What Mask (story)

Sharon May (Iran-USA)

The Wizard of Khao-I-Dang (story)

Pauline Melville (Guyana-UK)

McGregor's Journey (story)

Sudesh Mishra (Fiji)

Mt. Abu: St. Xavier's Church (poem)

The Grand Imperial Hotel (poem)

Rohinton Mistry (India-Canada)

Swimming Lessons (story)

Timothy Mo (Hong Kong-UK)

One of Billy's Boys: A Memoir (essay)

Toshio Mori (USA)

Slant-Eyed Americans (story)

Mervyn Morris (Jamaica)

To an Expatriate Friend (poem)

Little Boy Crying (poem)

Es'kia Mphahlele (South Africa)

The Coffee-Cart Girl (story)

Bharati Mukherjee (India-USA)

Hindus (story)

Gerald Murnane (Australia)

Land Deal (story)

V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad-UK)

B. Wordsworth (story)

Jasmine (essay)

R. K. Narayan (India)

Mother and Son (story)

Mudrooroo Narogin (Australia)

They Give Jacky Rights (poem)

Njabulo S. Ndebele (South Africa)

Guilt and Atonement: Unmasking History for the Future (essay)

Ngitji Ngitji (Mona Tur; Australia)

The Possum Woman (story)

Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (Kenya)

Goodbye Africa (story)

Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Australia)

Gooboora, the Silent Pool (poem)

The Past (poem)

Gabriel Okara (Nigeria)

The Snowflakes Sail Gently Down (poem)

Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka-Canada)

Light (poem)

Sasenarine Persaud (Guyana-Canada)

Gifting the Light of the Soul (poem)

M. Nourbese Philip (Trinidad-Canada)

Sprung Rhythm (poem)

Caryl Phillips (Caribbean-UK)

Out of Africa: The Case Against Conrad (essay)

Sharon Pollock (Canada)

The Komogata Maru Incident (play)

Jean Rhys (Dominica-UK)

I Used to Live Here Once (story)

Kevin Roberts (Australia-Canada)

Mah Fung (poem)

Salman Rushdie (India-UK)

"Commonwealth Literature" Does Not Exist (essay)

Outside the Whale (essay)

F. R. Scott (Canada)

To the Poets of India (poem)

All the Spikes but the Last (poem)

Samuel Selvon (Trinidad-UK-Canada)

Turning Christian (story)

Olive Senior (Jamaica)

The Boy Who Loved Ice Cream (story)

Vikram Seth (India)

Research in Jiangsu Province (poem)

Philip Sherlock (Jamaica)

The Warau People Discover the Earth (folk tale)

Janice Shinebourne (Guyana-UK)

Red Bean Cakes: New York and London (memoir)

Leslie Marmon Silko (USA)

Yellow Woman (story)

Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)

Chimes of Silence (poem)

Subramani (Fiji)

Sautu (story)

Mary TallMountain (USA)

There is No Word for Goodbye (poem)

Edwin Thumboo (Singapore)

Ulysses by the Merlion (poem)

Alatina Vuki (Fiji)

Four-Year Wisdom (poem)

Fred Wah (Canada)

from Breathin' My Name with a Sigh (poem)

Derek Walcott (St. Lucia)

Ruins of a Great House (poem)

A Letter from Brooklyn (poem)

Midsummer LII (poem)

Archie Weller (Australia)

Pension Day (story)

Albert Wendt (Western Samoa-New Zealand)

Crocodile (story)

Rudy Wiebe (Canada)

Where is the Voice Coming From (story)

May Wong (Singapore)

The Shroud (poem)

Arthur Yap (Singapore)

2 Mothers in a HDB Playground (poem)