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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imtiaz Dharker is a leading British poet, the recipient of many awards and the only writer of South Asian origin to receive the prestigious Queen’s Medal for Poetry. She is also a filmmaker and ...

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 ...

Hip-hop star Akala meets the poet Imtiaz Dharker to discuss her poem 'The Right Word'. Suitable for teaching GCSE English Literature in England and Wales, and Northern Ireland and National 4/5 in ...

On the 8th of November, 2024: I had the pleasure of meeting Imtiaz Dharker, internationally famous poet and Chancellor of Newcastle University (you may recognise her from her poem Tissue, on the ...

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

Imtiaz Dharker performs and describes her poem Tissue. She describes how the poem came about after the found notes her father had written in the end pages of a book, and talks about how she was ...

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.