Localities: Intercultural Poetics

One of the prime concerns behind the compilation of this special poetry issue of Kunapipi is to challenge the colonial/post-colonial binary, and to bring into question both the discourse surrounding this construct and, indeed, the terminologies themselves. The questions are socio-political and linguistic, cultural and epistemological. By including poetry from a wide range of localities - geographical, conceptual, aesthetic, spiritual, cultural, and ethnological - I am attempting to deconstruct the question into its multi-directional component parts.