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Imtiaz Dharker has turned down the chance to become the next poet laureate ... Comic icon slams Ellen DeGeneres as 'creepy, weird and not nice' ...
Imtiaz Dharker, 65, would be the first Asian, Muslim or Pakistani person and second woman to become poet laureate in the position’s 350-year-long history. She has written about religion ...
Imtiaz Dharker’s latest offering is called The Terrorist At My Table, but there’s nothing provocative about the poet. Dressed in a long gold jacket, her skin glowing, ...
Hip-hop star Akala meets the poet Imtiaz Dharker to discuss her poem 'The Right Word'. Suitable for teaching GCSE English Literature in England and Wales, and Northern Ireland and National 4/5 in ...
As Carol Ann Duffy’s 10-year tenure as the Poet Laureate of Britain ended in April 2019, it was tipped that Imtiaz Dharker would take up the position. Dharker, however, in a statement to The ...
Imtiaz was born in Lahore, where she lived for barely a few weeks, and grew up in Glasgow before shifting to what was then Bombay with her then husband Anil Dharker Advertisement Saturday, 22 April ...
We follow artist Fiona Graham-Mackay as she paints the portrait of poet, artist and documentary film-maker Imtiaz Dharker. Born in Pakistan and raised in Glasgow, Imtiaz was awarded the Queen’s ...
From the clatter of trains and the rumble of meat lorries to the light over the River Thames, the Pakistani-born British poet Imtiaz Dharker finds inspiration from the world around her. In 2014 ...
Imtiaz Dharker, 65, was said to be among the famed poets being considered for the prestigious title, which effectively makes laureates paid members of the royal household.