Contemporary Indonesian Poetry

Harry Aveling has written, taught, translated and edited in the

field of Indonesian and Malaysian studies for many years. He
was Dean of the School of Human Communication at Murdoch
University between 1977 and 1979, and was the first chairman of
the university's Southeast Asian Studies programme. From 1982
to 1984 he was with the Department of Indonesian and Malaysian
Studies at the University of Melbourne, and is presently Acting
Dean of the Melbourne College of Divinity. Aveling was a Series
Editor of UQP's Asian and Pacific Writing Series, which includ-
ed his translation of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's A Heap of Ashes.
His The Development of Indonesian Society is also available through
UQP.
Contemporarg
Indonesian Poetry
poems in Bahasa Indonesia and English
by
w. S. Rendra
Ajip Rosidi
Subagio Sastrowardojo
Toeti Heraty
Taufiq Ismail
Goenawan Mohalnad
Sapardi Djoko Damono

edited and translated by

HanJJ Aveling
University of Queensland Press
ST LUCIA LONDON NEW YORK