"The first regional anthology sponsored by PEN."

Australia: A place I knew once / John Hetherington -- Four Impromptus / Gwen Harwood -- The fever / Rosemary Dobson -- The kaleidoscopic dark / Lola Jackson -- Swan / Rodney Hall -- Pieta / James McAuley -- Burma: Prelude to glory / U Win Pe -- A Sawbwa dies / Daw Mi Mi Khaing -- Ceylon: Going back / G. Amarasekara -- Daughter-in-law / Martin Wikramasinghe -- Hong Kong: The donkey cart / S.T. Hwang -- India: Flight and pursuit / Annada Sankar Ray -- Surabhi / Gulabdas Broker -- Gauri / Gopi Gauba -- The wog / Khushwant Singh -- Enterprise / Nissim Ezekiel -- Philosophy / Nissim Ezekiel -- Poet, lover, birdwatcher / Nissim Ezekiel -- Summer in Calcutta / Kamala Das -- The sirens / Kamala Das -- I shall someday / Kamala Das -- Indonesia: Van Buren and the village girl / Achdiat K. Mihardja -- Meeting / S. Takdir Alisjahbana -- Catedrale de Chartres / Sitor Situmorang -- Traveler first class / E. Tatengkeng -- In praise of you / Amir Hamzah -- Ballad of the men of the limestone soil / W.S. Rendra -- To a friend / Chairil Anwar -- Tale for Dien Tamaela / Chairil Anwar -- Japan: Brief encounter / Nagai Tatsuo -- Three million Yen / Mishima Yukio -- Clay doll / Sata Ineko -- I mean to live / Hirabayashi Taiko -- Invisible tree / Ruichi Tamura -- Poem / Shuntaro Tanikawa -- Bird / Ishikawa Itsuko -- The afternoon of a solar eclipse / Shinjiro Kurahara -- Korea: When the iris bloomed / Shon So-Hee -- Parting / Han Mo Chung -- The late fall / Chong Mun Kim -- Malaysia: The child in a red shirt / A.S. Amin -- My lion city / Masuri S.N. -- Gift / Usman Awang -- Direction / A. Samad Said -- Pakistan: The wives of a few bureaucrats / A.G. Hazari -- My east Bengal / Syed Ali Ahsan -- Philippines: May Day eve / Nick Joaquin -- The enchanted plant / Bienvenido N. Santos -- The bread of salt / NVM Gonsalez -- The sounds of Sunday / Kerima Polotan -- The anchored angel / Jose Garcia Villa -- Dusk / Carlos A. Angeles -- Mid-morning for Sheba / Edith L. Tiempo -- In answer to Cimabue / Valdemar Olaguer -- Thailand: Champoon / Theb Mahapaorya -- Rising flood / Riem Eng -- The grandmother / E. Surangkhanang -- Nang Phanthurat's gold mine / Riem Eng -- The tropic night / Prem Chaya -- Taiwan: Molten iron / Tsu Hsi-Nin -- Time of no return / Hsu Chung-Pai -- Chasms and gold harvest crumble / Wai Lim Yip -- Vietnam: The two pots of orchids / Phan Du.