ASHOK BERY is a Senior Lecturer in English at London Metropolitan University, UK. He is the co-editor of Comparing Postcolonial Literatures (2000), and the author of numerous articles on postcolonial literatures.

• Acknowledgements Cultural Translation Songlines: Judith Wright and Belonging Fusion and Translation: Les Murray's Australia Louis MacNeice, Ireland, India Seamus Heaney's Acoustics Indian Palimpsets: The Poetry of A.K. Ramanujan Fragmentation and Restoration in Derek Walcott's Omeros Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

ASHOK BERY is a Senior Lecturer in English at London Metropolitan University, UK. He is the co-editor of Comparing Postcolonial Literatures (2000), and the author of numerous articles on postcolonial literatures.

• Acknowledgements Cultural Translation Songlines: Judith Wright and Belonging Fusion and Translation: Les Murray's Australia Louis MacNeice, Ireland, India Seamus Heaney's Acoustics Indian Palimpsets: The Poetry of A.K. Ramanujan Fragmentation and Restoration in Derek Walcott's Omeros Conclusion Select Bibliography Index