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 ...

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 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.

Imtiaz Dharker performs and describes her poem Tissue. She describes how the poem came about after the found notes her father had written in the end pages of a book, and talks about how she was ...

IMTIAZ DHARKER:Yes some people misunderstand this poem and think that I'm saying "Be kind to terrorists" but it's not really that. Who is this person who's walking down the street.

Sunday Times News: Imtiaz Dharker's second book of poems will soon be out in India. Namrata Sharma finds that there' ...

Imtiaz Dharker, 65, was born in Pakistan and raised in Scotland. She has written about themes including religion, identity and feminism - and would be the first Asian to become poet laureate.

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, ...

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 ...

Born in 1954. That's the coincidental connection that seems to unite British-Sri Lankan author Romesh Gunesekera and Scottish poet and artist Imtiaz Dharker.

Imtiaz Dharker, who was widely tipped to receive the highest honour in British poetry, would have been the first Asian laureate in the post’s 350 years.