Contents -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- 1 Poetry and postcoloniality -- 1.1 Terms, contexts, and perspectives -- 1.2 English in Britain: assimilation and resistance -- 1.3 Local themes, global applications -- 2 Back to the future -- 2.1 English as a 'foreign anguish': Nourbese Philip -- 2.2 'no darkie baby in this house': Jackie Kay -- 2.3 'the invisible mending of the heart': Ingrid de Kok -- PART II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL TRADITIONS -- 3 South Asia and Southeast Asia -- 3.1 Macaulay's minutemen -- 3.2 The Indian subcontinent -- 3.3 Southeast Asia -- 4 The Caribbean -- 4.1 Colonization and hybridity -- 4.2 Poetry and place -- 4.3 Poetry as performance: Caribbean orality -- 5 Black Africa -- 5.1 From colony to nation in Africa -- 5.2 The cost of protest -- 5.3 The ambivalence of cultural nationalism -- 6 The settler countries -- 6.1 Writing region and nation -- 6.2 Breaking with the past -- 6.3 Becoming modern -- PART III: CASE STUDIES: VOICE AND TECHNIQUE -- 7 Minoritarian sensibilities -- 7.1 Oceania -- 7.2 'Indigenes' and settler minorities -- 7.3 Black Britain and the Caribbean diaspora -- 8 Techniques of self-representation -- 8.1 Modernism and hybridity: black Africa -- 8.2 Gender and poetry: the Caribbean -- 8.3 Postmodern practice: South Asia -- 9 Recurrent motifs: voyage and translation -- 9.1 The voyage home: Walcott and Brathwaite -- 9.2 Postcolonial exile: Ee Tiang Hong -- 9.3 Postcolonial translation: A. K. Ramanujan and Agha Shahid Ali -- 10 After the 'post-' -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.