The Terrorist at My Table by Imtiaz Dharker (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Terrorist at My Table by Imtiaz Dharker In A Terrorist at My Table, 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 was Imtiaz Dharkers third book from Bloodaxe. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. 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. The terrorist at my table asks crucial questions about how we live now - working, travelling, eating, listening to the news, preparing for attack. What do any of us know about the person who shares this street, this house, this table, this body? When life is in the hands of a fellow-traveller, a neighbour, a lover, son or daughter, how does the world shift and reform itself around our doubt, our belief? Imtiaz Dharkers poems and pictures hurtle through a world that changes even as we pass. This is life seen through distorting screens - a windscreen, a TV screen, newsprint, mirror, water, breath, heat haze, smokescreen. Her book grows, layer by layer, through three sequences: The terrorist at my table, The habit of departure and Worldwide Rickshaw Ride. Each cuts a different slice through the terrain of what we think of as normal. But through all the uncertainties and concealments, her poems unveil the delicate skin of love, trust and sudden recognition. Imtiaz Dharker is an accomplished artist. Like all her collections, The terrorist at my table is illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of the book. Author Biography 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 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry for 2014, presented to her by The Queen in spring 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 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 the iconic BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs. Review Hers is a strong, concerned, economical poetry, in which political activity, homesickness, urban violence, religious anomalies, are raised in an unobtrusive domestic setting, all the more effectively for their coolness of treatment – Alan Ross, London MagazineHere is no glib internationalism or modish multiculturalism …Displacement here no longer spells exile; it means an exhilarating sense of life at the interstices. There is an exultant celebration of a self that strips off layers of superfluous identity with grace and abandon, only to discover that it has not diminished, but grown larger, generous, more inclusive – Arundhathi Subramaniam, Poetry InternationalWere there to be a World Laureate, Imtiaz Dharker would be the only candidate – Carol Ann Duffy. Long Description This collection asks crucial questions about how we live - working, traveling, eating, listening to the news, preparing for attack. What do any of us know about the person who shares this street, this house, this table, this body? Born in Pakistan, Imtiaz Dharker grew up in Glasgow, married an Indian and moved to Bombay. She now moves between India, London, and Wales. She is an accomplished artist and all of her books include her own drawings. Review Quote "These poems...reveal the darkest and most intimate emotions that many women dare not uncover." Details ISBN1852247355 Author Imtiaz Dharker Short Title TERRORIST AT MY TABLE Language English ISBN-10 1852247355 ISBN-13 9781852247355 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2006 DOI 10.1604/9781852247355 UK Release Date 2006-04-27 Imprint Bloodaxe Books Ltd Place of Publication Tyne and Wear Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2006-04-27 Pages 160 Publisher Bloodaxe Books Ltd Publication Date 2006-04-27 DEWEY 821 Illustrations Illustrations, black and white Audience General AU Release Date 2006-04-26 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145093202;

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