Luck is the Hook [Signed]

Imtiaz Dharker

ISBN 10: 1780372183 / ISBN 13: 9781780372181

Edité par Bloodaxe Books Ltd, Tarset, Northumberland, 2018

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127pp. Collection of sixty-nine poems, with b/w illustrations. The sixth book of poetry by Imtiaz Dharker published by Bloodaxe. Black covers with a drawing by the author on the front. Red and white lettering on face and spine. Slight lift of laminate to rear corner and also to lower front edge. Gift inscription on the title page signed by the author to Patricia & William (Oxley), dated 2019. The Oxleys organised the Torbay Poetry Festival (Devon) between 2001 and 2019. Their neat ownership stamp is on the inside front cover. No other inscriptions. In near fine condition.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Luck is the Hook [Signed]
• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, Tarset, Northumberland
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1780372183
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781780372181
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2014

Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of her books. Luck is the Hook is her sixth book from Bloodaxe. In these poems, chance plays a part in finding or losing people and places that are loved: a change in the weather, a trick of language, a bomb that misses its mark, six pomegranate seeds eaten by mistake; all these events cast long shadows and raise questions about who is recording them, about believing, not believing, wanting to believe. A knot undone at Loch Lomond snags over Glasgow, a seal swims in the Clyde, a ghost stalks her quarry at a stepped well, an elephant and a cathedral come face to face on the frozen Thames, a return ticket is thrown into the tide of Humber, strangers wash in. Even in an uncertain world, love tangles with luck, flights show up on the radar and technology keeps track of desire.

Imtiaz Dharker was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2014 for her fifth collection Over the Moon and for her services to poetry.

À propos de l?auteur

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 video filmmaker, and has seven poetry 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), Luck Is the Hook (2018), and Shadow Reader (2024), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. 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, presented to her by HM Queen Elizabeth in 2015, 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 Poetry Live! events all over the country to more than 35,000 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 the iconic BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs. In 2020 she was appointed Chancellor of Newcastle University. She lives in London.