Savitri Hensman was a member of the Hackney Writers’ Workshop. The workshop came together in 1976 as a Workers’ Education Assocoation class.
Savitri was born in Sri Lanka and came to Britain in 1965. She lived in Stoke Newington was in her final year of school when this was published in the third Hackney Writers’ Group collection, which came out in 1979.
Just Another Asian
Watching were the stars that night
Watching was the moon
As Abdul left the bus-stop
Whistling a tune
The street was still and quiet
And the street-lamps they were bright
But something gleamed more brightly
In an alleyway that night
A cold breeze stirred and dwindled;
He did not see or hear
Th silent youths who played with
The knife as he drew near
His eyes were on the street ahead
His thoughts were on his wife
And then he heard the curses
And…
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