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Poet Imtiaz Dharker is suspicious!

Poet Imtiaz Dharker is thoroughly enjoying whizzing around the country, reading her new poetry in the company of her daughter Ayesha. Key Highlights Poet Imtiaz Dharker is thoroughly enjoying whizzing ...
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Imtiaz Dharker turns down England’s poet laureateship to focus on her work

Poet Imtiaz Dharker has turned down the poet laureateship, the highest honour in British poetry, to focus on her work, The Guardian reported on Friday. Dharker was born in Lahore, Pakistan, grew up in ...
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Imtiaz Dharker has refused to be Britain’s Poet Laureate. ‘The poems won,’ she said. She is right

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 Guardian, ...
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Scot Pakistani Imtiaz Dharker to be poet laureate

LONDON: A Lahore-born Pakistani Scottish Muslim is expected to be named next month as the new poet laureate, replacing Carol Ann Duffy. Imtiaz Dharker, 65, would be the first Asian, Muslim or ...
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A Night With Imtiaz Dharker, Poet

On the 8th of November, 2024: I had the pleasure of meeting Imtiaz Dharker, internationally famous poet and Chancellor of Newcastle University (you may recognise her from her poem Tissue, on the GCSE ...
The Telegraph

Imtiaz Dharker could become England’s next Poet Laureate

Here’s a question for the readers of The Telegraph to bring up this morning over Coffee House adda. What do the following have in common: John Dryden, William Wordsworth, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Cecil ...
Metro

Imtiaz Dharker turns down chance to become next poet laureate

The title, awarded by the Queen, has for the past ten years been held by Carol Ann Duffy (Picture: REX) An acclaimed poet tipped to become the next laureate has turned down the Queen’s award saying ...
The Scotsman

The Scotsman Sessions #190: Imtiaz Dharker

Welcome to the award-winning Scotsman Sessions. With performing arts activity curtailed for the foreseeable future, we are commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around ...
Evening Chronicle

Poet Imtiaz Dharker published in North East to be honoured by Queen

A poet brought to Britain by love and the Northumberland publisher Bloodaxe Books is to be awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, one of literature’s highest honours. Imtiaz Dharker, whose work is ...
BBC

BBC Radio 3 announces new work by acclaimed poet Imtiaz Dharker as text tor its 2019 Breakfast Carol Competition

Listeners and budding composers across the country are invited to write a brand new Christmas Carol, as this year’s BBC Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition launches on Monday 2 September. It is always ...
Indiatimes

The brighter Dharker

<img src=/photo.cms?msid=1677982336 align=left>Imtiaz Dharker's second book of poems will soon be out in India. Namrata Sharma finds that there's plenty of colour in ...
The Guardian

Carol Ann Duffy leads British poets creating 'living record' of coronavirus

Major names including Imtiaz Dharker, Jackie Kay and father-and-son poets Ian and Andrew McMillan to document outbreak in verse Carol Ann Duffy has launched an international poetry project with major ...