Poetry's relevancy as a tool for social and political change continues to be overlooked in a global context. Looking to writers as diverse as Derek Walcott, Paul Muldoon, and Daljit Nagra, Hena shows that poets throughout the world have reinvigorated older poetic traditions to address political realities and the sweeping pressures of modernity.

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Omaar Hena is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University, USA.

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Introduction

1. Derek Walcott ' 's Poetics of Global Economy in Omeros
2. Playing Indian / Disintegrating Irishness: Paul Muldoon and the Politics of Cross-Cultural Comparison
3. Recomposing South Africa: Cosmopolitanism and Vulnerability in Ingrid de Kok
4. Literary Citizenship in Daljit Nagra

Conclusion