Postcards from God - Couverture souple

Dharker, Imtiaz

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852244070 ISBN 13 : 9781852244071

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Born in Pakistan, Imtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. She is an accomplished artist and documentary film-maker, and has published six books with Bloodaxe, Postcards from god (including Purdah) (1997), I Speak for the Devil (2001), The terrorist at my table (2006), Leaving Fingerprints (2009, Over the Moon (2014) and Luck is the Hook (2018). All her poetry collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of the books; she is one of very few poet-artists to work in this way. She was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2014 for Over the Moon and her services to poetry, and has also received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Over the Moon was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2014. Her poems are on the British GCSE and A Level English syllabus, and she reads with other poets at GCSE Poetry Live! events all over the country to more than 25,000 students a year. She has had a dozen solo exhibitions of drawings in India, London, Leeds, New York and Hong Kong. She scripts and directs films, many of them for non-government organisations in India, working in the area of shelter, education and health for women and children. In 2015 she appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2014

An anguished god surveys a world stricken by fundamentalism in these powerful poems by a writer whose cultural experience spans three countries: Pakistan, the country of her birth, and Britain and India, her countries of adoption. It is from this life of transitions that the themes of Imtiaz Dharker's poetry are drawn: childhood, exile, journeying, home and religious strife.

Imtiaz Dharker is an accomplished artist, and this selection drawn from her first two collections Purdah and Postcards from god includes her own drawings for these sequences.

In Purdah she memorialises the betweenness of a traveller between cultures, exploring the dilemmas of negotiation among countries, lovers, children. Postcards from god meditates upon disquietudes in the poet's chosen society: its sudden acts of violence, its feuds and insanities, forcing her into a permanent wakefulness that fits her eyes with glass lids.

If the poems collected in Purdah are windows shuttered upon a private world, those gathered into Postcards from god are doorways leading out into the lanes and shanties where strangers huddle, bereft of the tender grace of attention.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1852244070
• ISBN 13: 9781852244071
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 160