RESURGENCE 24 Abercorn Place, St. John's Wood, London, N.W.8

Contents

Journal of The Fourth World

Vol. 2 No. 11 Jan./Feb. 1970

Editorial Group

3 7 12

Editorial

Nigerian 'Balkanisation'

Biafra Reviews

14 IS United Nations Convention on Genocide

16

Biafra Quotes

The Biafran War of Independence Editor John Papworth

1 The Hard Way to The Fourth

World

2 Britain's Shame

Managing Roger Franklin Editor

Poetry Editors David Kuhrt Michael and

Frances Horovitz

18 19 20 23

27 29 32

The Coming Decade Poem: 'Winter Woods'

Robert Casey Frances Horovitz

Layout Graham Keen & Art John Furnival

Review Letters All Coppers Are Bastards? Ronald Barnes, Graham Bennett, Business Michael North

Roger Franklin, Harry Greville, Lawrence D. Hills, Janet Leach, E. Sutcliffe, Michael Tatham, Anne Vogel.

Babylonian Notebook Poem: 'Behind Buildings'

John Papworth

Biafra Maps John Stephens Wade

& Subs.

Associate Ernest Bader Editors Danilo Dolci

Paul Goodman Ray Gosling

Prof. Leopold Kohr Jayaprakash Narayan Dr. E. F. Schumacher

Contributors

JOHN STEVENS WADE is an American, living in England. He has had poems published in many periodicals, and recently a collection of poems, "Gallery" from Poet & Painter. He features in 31 New American Poets, this year from Hill & Wang, N.Y. In 1966 and 1967 he was poetry instructor at the Cape Cod Writers' Conference and he has led a seminar on creative writing at Wisconsin State University. His translations of poems by Dutch writers appeared in Resurgence Vol. 2, No. 2 (Jul/ Aug. 1968).

ROBERT CASEY has campaigned for many years for minority rights, particularly of the American Indians. His article 'The Last Indian War' appeared in Resurgence Vol. 1, No. 3.

FRANCFS HOROVITZ has had poems published in several magazines and anthologies, the most recent being Children of Albion. A pamphlet of her poems has been published by St. Albert's Press and a second pamphlet is forthcoming in the New Year. She is a part-time teacher of English and Drama, is a frequent poetry reader on the B.B.C. Third Programme, and takes part in many live poetry readings.

The cover is by DOM SYLVESTER HOUEDARD, who is a poet, artist and scholar whose work has been exhibited in many galleries and who is one of the translators of the Jerusalem Bible.

,

2

PETER CADOGAN is a Peace Activist, a veteran of CND and the Committee of 100 who is now Secretary of the Save Biafra Campaign. Recent actions of this group designed to prevent Biafra being forgotten in Britain have included flag raising at the Commonwealth Institute, a brief takeover of the Banqueting House, Whitehall, and a call to 'Remember Biafra' after the 2-minute silence at the Cenotaph.

RESURGENCE: published bi-monthly on the first day of January, March, May, July, September and November. PRICE PER COPY - three shillings.

U.K. U.S.

Postal Subscription Rates Singles

3 / 6 post free SOc post free

Yearly £1 post free $3 post free

BACK NUMBERS 10 issues of Volume 1 (excluding Nos. 9 and 11 )-£2 10s. or $6.00, post free.

Copies of out of print issues 9 and 11£3 or $7.50 each. These may be specially ordered photostat copies of the original.

First 8 issues of Volume 2, including double issue July/October 1969-£1 10s. or $4.00, post free.