Dharker, Imtiaz, 1954- (poet, artist and documentary film-maker)
Dates
- Existence: 1954-
Biography
Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and documentary film-maker. She was born in Lahore in 1954, grew up in Scotland, worked for many years in India before living between Mumbai, London and Wales. Her collections of poems include 'Purdah' (Oxford University Press), 'Postcards from God', 'I Speak for the Devil' and 'The Terrorist at my Table' (all published by Penguin India and Bloodaxe Books UK) and 'Leaving Fingerprints' (Bloodaxe Books UK). Her poems have been widely broadcast on radio and television. She has had ten solo exhibitions of drawings in India, London, New York and Hong Kong, and all of her books of poems also contain her drawings. 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.
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Imtiaz Dharker
Work by Imtiaz Dharker arising from a residency at Cambridge University Library. Includes Dharker's Thresholds notebook containing notes, poems and drawings, with loose inserts; and word-processed document printouts of poems. The poems include 'Ten'; 'Stick'; 'When the copperplate cracks (Theatrum Orbis Terrarum)'; 'Digital'; 'Kozo'; 'Palimpsest'; 'Is this what you meant, Giles Gilbert?'; and 'Touch'. All printouts were supplied by Dharker.