We normally try to find poetry that reflects one of the major themes of each issue.

For the Autumn issue of 2013 we have chosen Dependency.  Although this represents quite a stretch from the Dependency Theory of our articles, we hope it has produced some pages of verse that will please our readers. 

The 2 poems are from separate ends of the historical, geographical, and chronological spectra.  Sassoon's. of course, was written shortly after the 1914-18 War; Saurav Karki, a 19-year old from Kathmandu, has contributed a piece of verse very much of the 21st century.

In Me, Past, Present, Future Meet - by Siegfried Sassoon