Over the Moon
eBook - ePub

Over the Moon

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Over the Moon

About this book

Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. 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. Over the Moon is her fifth book from Bloodaxe. These are poems of joy and sadness, of mourning and celebration: poems about music and feet, church bells, beds, cafe tables, bad language and sudden silence. In contrast with her previous work written amidst the hubbub of India, these new poems are mostly set in London, where she has built a new life with - and since the death of - her husband Simon Powell. 'This is a passionate, uplifting collection of poems about language, love and loss, grief and joy, elegy and celebration. The loss of a great love makes poems of piercing beauty. In her finest book to date, Imtiaz Dharker finds resolution in language itself, and in a world the more loved for the sharpness of loss' - Gillian Clarke. 'Imtiaz Dharker's new collection is the crown to a celebratory, humane, wholly utterable, subtly crafted poetry. Its dark jewels are the magnificent poems of bereavement, which will surely endure. Reading her, one feels that were there to be a World Laureate, Imtiaz Dharker would be the only candidate' - Carol Ann Duffy.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Description
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Like that only
  8. Taal
  9. Bombil, Bumla, Bummalo
  10. Jurassic
  11. Number 106
  12. Hiraeth, Old Bombay
  13. Wild
  14. Gobstopper
  15. Brookhouse
  16. In Wales, wanting to be Italian
  17. Not for the Vroom Vroom Vroom
  18. Waiting for Crossrail
  19. The first sight of the train
  20. Rapt
  21. The City
  22. Undone
  23. The Appointment
  24. Watching the water
  25. The cranes
  26. Jewel-box
  27. Alan or David or John
  28. The day the marks made sense
  29. Wean
  30. Ghazals on the Grundig, Pingling in Pollokshields
  31. Nicked
  32. Speech balloon
  33. Meanwhile at the Irani Bakery
  34. Mumbai? Kissmiss?
  35. Signs of life
  36. Don’t Miss Out! Book Right Now for the Journey of a Lifetime!
  37. It doesn’t matter
  38. At Smithfield, waiting to get in
  39. True
  40. Chiller
  41. All-night café
  42. Night shift
  43. Christmas Eve on the Number 4
  44. I take
  45. Gift
  46. Ace Café
  47. A hundred and one
  48. Un salon con mil ventanas
  49. Talker
  50. Wiped
  51. Listener
  52. Stab
  53. You said something I did not understand
  54. Vigil
  55. Vroom
  56. After
  57. The other side of silence
  58. The closed door
  59. Rinse cycle
  60. Medium
  61. Presence
  62. The unwritten bed
  63. Recording uninterrupted
  64. Murmuration
  65. Passport photo
  66. Disappeared
  67. Threshold
  68. Late
  69. Ephemeral
  70. (Untitled)
  71. Spin
  72. Palimpsest
  73. When the copperplate cracks
  74. Kozo
  75. Digital
  76. Nefertiti in the prison block
  77. Trace
  78. Screen-saver
  79. The Conversation
  80. I swear
  81. Swing
  82. Swan for Christmas
  83. Invisible
  84. Passing
  85. 1977
  86. Litter
  87. Say his name
  88. Listening
  89. Fair copy
  90. A century later
  91. Drummer
  92. Midnight, Christmas Eve
  93. London Bells
  94. First words
  95. One foot
  96. Acknowledgements
  97. Biographical note
  98. Copyright