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Imtiaz Dharker turns down the chance to become the next poet laureate

The acclaimed poet Imtiaz Dharker has turned down the chance to become the next poet laureate to focus on her own work. Miss Dharker, who was widely tipped to receive the highest honour in British ...
The News International

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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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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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 ...
Hindustan Times

An evening with a 'terrorist'

Internationally acclaimed Actress Ayesha Dharker and her mother, poet Imtiaz Dharker were present at the release of Imtiaz Dharker's latest book, The Terrorist at My Table, in New Delhi, on Friday, an ...
Indiatimes

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 ...
BBC

Imtiaz Dharker

Programme following artist Fiona Graham-Mackay as she paints poet Imtiaz Dharker, listening in as the work progresses and to conversations between the sitter and painter. Show more We follow artist ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...