International PEN Women Writers Committee Brief
The International PEN Women Writers Committee (IPWWC) was created in 1991 to
address the special needs of women writers. Women writers continue
throughout the world to have unequal access to resources. There are
countries in which a

THE SUMMONS
DAVID WHISH WILSON
VINTAGE, RANDOM HOUSE, AUSTRALIA, 2006
http://www.randomhouse.com.au

Book Review by DR. CATHIE DUNSFORD

“If a cooper made a barrel for Flade’s father, it was as if the barrel was made not for his father but for the sake of the barrel itself.

ALONG THE CAUCA RIVER     by Jaime Jaramillo Escobar (Colombia)
translated from the Spanish by Judith Rodriguez

We used to go down – me and my horse – twice a year to the Cauca River.
Down out of the high mountains we’d go and at daybreak we’d catch sight of the
river

THE MOVELESS SEA OF THE LLANOS   by Oscar Echeverri Mejía
translated from Spanish by Judith Rodriguez

You don’t have to tell me it’s the sea. That I knew
from the herons dreaming of their sails. From the palm-grove islands
lifting their tall masts.
I sensed it
from the

THE ASYLUM-SEEKERS

Bearing your loss
however you can
to our fearful ports
        NO PLACE
    my abasement
Your cry in my hearing
your children your children
the salt waste
these depths these deaths
    my abasement
Your feet in my shallows
your hands at my shore
my