Imtiaz Dharker

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'Imtiaz Dharker' is a Pakistani-British poet and documentary film-maker. She was born in Lahore in 1954 to Pakistani parents, but she was brought up in Glasgow where her family moved to during her teens. Dharker is currently married to Simon Powell, the founder of the organization Poetry Live and divides her time between London, Wales and Mumbai. Her daughter Ayesha Dharker is a well known actress in British films and tv and stage. [1] She has written three books of poetry, conceived as sequences of poems and drawings.[1] The main themes of her poetry are home, freedom, journeys, geographical and cultural displacement, communal conflict and gender politics.[1]

She is a prescribed poet on the AQA GCSE English syllabus. Her poems 'Blessing' and 'This Room' are in AQA Anthology, Different Cultures, Cluster 1 and 2 respectively.[2]

She is also an artist and documentary-maker. In 1980, she won an award for a short film.[citation needed] She is on the judging panel for the 2008 Manchester Poetry Prize.

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  1. ^ a b c Imtiaz Dharker (HTML). Poetry International Web. Retrieved on 2006-11-20.
  2. ^ AQA (2002). AQA Anthology 2005 onwards. Oxford University Press. 


Born in Pakistan, Imtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow and eloped with a Hindu Indian to live in Bombay. She is now making a new life between India, London and Wales. She is an accomplished artist and documentary film-maker, and all her books – all published by Bloodaxe – Postcards from god (including Purdah), I Speak for the Devil and The terrorist at my table, include her own drawings.

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NAME Dharker, Imtiaz
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SHORT DESCRIPTION Contemporary British-Indian poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahore, Pakistan
DATE OF DEATH
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