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 ...

Queen Elizabeth II presents Imtiaz Dharker with The Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry (Picture: REX) The laureateship – which was first introduced in the 17th century to award poetic excellence ...

Imtiaz Dharker, 65, would be the first Asian, Muslim or Pakistani person and second woman to become poet laureate in the position’s 350-year-long history. She has written about religion ...

Poet Imtiaz Dharker is thoroughly enjoying whizzing around the country, reading her new poetry in the company of her daughter Ayesha. The title is provocative.

Of Dharker’s poetry, the former laureate Carol Ann Duffy, who also happens to be the first female and the first openly queer poet to hold the position, has said: “Reading her, one feels that ...

Sunday Times News: Imtiaz Dharker's second book of poems will soon be out in India. Namrata Sharma finds that there' ...

Imtiaz Dharker. Bloodaxe, $18.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-78037-709-4. Dharker (Luck Is the Hook) combines her poetry and drawings to deliver an exquisite and complex vision of exile, ...

Imtiaz was born in Lahore, where she lived for barely a few weeks, and grew up in Glasgow before shifting to what was then Bombay with her then husband Anil Dharker Advertisement Saturday, 22 April ...

Imtiaz Dharker performs and describes her poem The Trick. She details how she was struggling to write a love poem, but found that by writing a sonnet the words, about dreaming of love, flowed more ...

Imtiaz Dharker, who was widely tipped to receive the highest honour in British poetry, would have been the first Asian laureate in the post’s 350 years.