THE CALLING OF KINDRED (Poems from the English Speaking World)
 
Cambridge University Press 1993, U.K.

Edited by Adrian Barlow

About the Collection:

The Calling of Kindred aims to show that English poetry is written, spoken and read all around the world, and that poets and readers are a diverse but also a closely-knit family.  Each of the five sections in this anthology contains a mixture of poems from different periods and different countries.  The collection includes classic poems, from Shakespeare onwards, alongside poems which are very recent.  More than one third of the poems are by poets who write in English (or are translated), but who are not British-born.  The resulting  range provides a stimulating diversity of origin:

Australia	India	Russia
Canada	Italy	Singapore
England	Ireland	USA
France	Jamaica	Wales
Guyana	New Zealand	Zimbabwe
Greece	Nigeria

     To help the reader, the anthology includes a section called "the poets and their poems".  This gives biographical details and guidance on unfamiliar words and references.  The notes also suggest connections between the poems in the collection

Footnote: "Grandfather" one of Chandran Nair's best known poems is on page 21 of Section A of the collection.