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 ...

AKALA:We all know thousands and thousands of words. We hear them, we read them, we speak them, every single day. But are we careful enough in the way that we use language? Because, do you know ...

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 ...

<img src=/photo.cms?msid=1677982336 align=left>Imtiaz Dharker's second book of poems will soon be out in India. Namrata Sharma finds that there's plenty of colour in ...

IMTIAZ DHARKER:I was looking at a book one day and on the tissue paper at the back I saw that my father had written my date of birth very carefully in his beautiful handwriting but looking at it I ...

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 ...

The London Book Fair (LBF) has announced it is running a series of seminars on poetry at this year's event and its first ever “Poet of the Fair” will be Imtiaz Dharker. The Pakistan-born ...

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 ...

The acclaimed poet Imtiaz Dharker has turned down the chance to ... who was widely tipped to receive the highest honour in British poetry, would have been the first Asian laureate in the post ...