Imtiaz Dharker performs and describes her poem Blessing. She discusses how the poem is inspired by a burst water main in a slum in the city of Mumbai, and how the daily grind is interrupted by the ...

Poet and filmmaker Imtiaz Dharker has snubbed the highest honour in British poetry (Picture: Getty) ‘The poems won. It was a huge honour to be considered for the role of poet laureate and I have ...

So, when it comes to South Asian voices in British poetry, one cannot ignore the groundwork done by Imtiaz Dharker, and her contemporaries Sujata Bhatt and Moniza Alvi, who have been writing about ...

LONDON: A Lahore-born Pakistani Scottish Muslim is expected to be named next month as the new poet laureate, replacing Carol Ann Duffy. Imtiaz Dharker, 65, would be the first Asian, Muslim or ...

had in the past praised Imtiaz for her “unique perspective in the diversity of English-language poetry”. “Whether Imtiaz Dharker writes of exile, childhood, politics or grief, her clear-eyed attention ...

Poet Imtiaz Dharker has turned down the poet laureateship, the highest honour in British poetry, to focus on her work, The Guardian reported on Friday. Dharker was born in Lahore, Pakistan ...

IMTIAZ DHARKER:The great first world war poet, Wilfred Owen was killed in 1918, when he was only 25 years old and in his poems he speaks about the waste of war. To me it seems-- Well Owen's war ...

The acclaimed poet Imtiaz Dharker has turned ... to focus on her own work. Miss Dharker, who was widely tipped to receive the highest honour in British poetry, would have been the first Asian ...