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 Over the Moon and for her
services to poetry.
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