The Loneliness of Islands
Published by Pacific Writing Forum and Ivy Press International.
In 1976 Satendra Nandan published a slender volume of poems, Faces in a Village, It was the first book of poetry in English published in Fiji. Since then his Voices in the River (1983) and

The name of god is O
Susan Hawthorne

The name of god is O
She was born in Baghdad
between the legs
of that fertile crescent

The O
The zero
invented here between the waters
of the Tigris and the Euphrates

The Gate of Ishtar shines
one hour’s drive from Baghdad
Paradise,

Now
Sandi Hall

I awake knowing I have had the strangest dream, but all that remains of it is a sense of sunlight whiter and dryer than here, and hills that were brown with dying grass.
There was a woman too, someone familiar but also someone I cannot identify with my wakeful mind.

A Tale of Two Dogs
Rose Zwi

I was about six years old when my father brought Ruby home. He had found the whimpering pup in the lane behind his shop, starving, rheumy-eyed. Before my mother could say dog’s mess, I had installed him in the laundry, on my doll’s blanket. The