DEDICATION
A DRAGONFLY IN THE SUN
THANKS
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
SHAHID SUHRAWARDY
Narcisse: Mallarmeen
Letter from O'Ni To E.T. at the Shiffolds a Fu
To My Dog
From An Old Man's Songs II
IV
VII
AHMED ALI Extracts from Twilight in Delhi
From Part I: Chapter 3
From Part II: Chapter 8
From Part III: Chapter 4
Poems from The Purple Gold Mountain
Having become a high official I was sent
to preach the Doctrine of No-Famine
I was put into prison for speaking the truth and there wrote this poem on the
advent of spring
The Wheel of Age comes full circle at last
MUMTAZ SHAHNAWAZ Extracts from The Heart
Divided
From Chapter 3
From Chapter 8
From Chapter 16
From Chapter 32
ZAIB-UN-NISSA HAMIDULLAH
The Bull and the She Devil
TAUFIQ RAFAT
Poems from The Arrival of the Monsoon
Circumcision
The Kingfisher
Return to Rajagriha
Arrival of the Monsoon
Wedding in the Flood
Poems from Half Moon To See Fruit Ripen
Poems for a Younger Brother
II Flight to London
V Long-distance Call
VI Cancer
X Indestructible
XII Shirt
Lights
MAKI KUREISHI
Day
Christmas Letter to my Sister
Kittens
Curfew Summer
Laburnum Tree
Oyster Rocks
For my Grandson
Snipers in Karachi
Letter from Chao-Chun
SHAHID HOSAIN
A Speculation
Regarding the Appearance of Sir Laurence
Olivier as Richard III in a Lahore Cinema
M.K. HAMEED
Gold Spot Glow
DAUD KAMAL Poems from Before The Carnations Wither
Prayer Beads
An Ancient Indian Coin
An Ode to Death
A Street Revisited
The Blue Wind
The Hunt
The Leap
The Gift
Voyage to the Enchanted Island
Turquoise
ZULFIKAR GHOSE
Extracts from The Triple Mirror of The Self
From Voyager and Pilgrim Chapter 8: In
the Desert
Chapter 10: You
From The Origins of the Self Chapter 2: On Forbidden Territory
Chapter 12: Incident on the Grand Trunk Road
Chapter 16: But You
From Selected Poems
The Loss of India
The Alien
The Water Carrier
On Owning Property in the USA
From Lady Macbeth's Farewell to Scotland
I The Shadow Woman
IV Exotic Nights
VII Among Perfumed Landscapes
KALEEM OMAR
Trout
Photograph
The Hunters in the Snow
Himalayan Brown
Winter Term
The Fifteenth Century
A Troubadour's Life
Night Music
JOCELYN ORTT SAEED Poems from Burning Bush
Where No Road Goes
For Alys Faiz
BAPSI SIDHWA Extracts from Ice-Candy-Man
From Chapter 1
From Chapter 11
From Chapter 16
From Chapter 25
NADIR HUSSEIN
A Wedding
G.F. RIAZ
Poem from Shade in Passing
In Search of Truth at the Geological
Museum
Poems from Escaping Twenty Shadows
The Silence
Alexander Comes of Age
S. AFZAL HAIDER
From Brooklyn to Karachi via Amsterdam
TALAT ABBASI
Simple Questions
ADRIAN A. HUSAIN Poems from Desert Album
Crocodiles
Margalla
Shrine
Landscape by Leila Shahzada
The Music Leaves Antony
For Srebrenica's Dead
Calvary Misunderstood
Out Patient
I Truant Visitor
II Tete a Tete
SALMAN TARIK KURESHI Poems from Landscapes
of the Mind
Winter Sunset
The C Minor Prelude and Fugue being Played
A Better Man Than I: (Six Poems for Kipling)
As if these Clouds
TARIQ ALI
Extract from Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
MUNEEZA SHAMSIE
Shahrazad's Golden Leopard
JAVAID QAZI
The Laid-Off Man
RUKHSANA AHMAD
Confessions and Lullabies
Extract from Song for a Sanctuary
SHUJA NAWAZ Poems from Journeys
Searching
The Sarangi Player
Raja Bazaar
The Initiation
Ozymandias II
TARIQ RAHMAN
Bingo
TAHIRA NAQVI
Love in an Election Year
ADAM ZAMEENZAD Extracts from Cyrus, Cyrus
Zoetrope: Reflections and Memories:
From Part I: The Fulcrum and the Hub One Birth
From Part II: Along the Radius and over
the Spokes: First Love -- Consummation
Continuum
From Part IV: Upon the Wheel Cyrus Cyrus
ALAMGIR HASHMI
From The Poems of Alamgir Hashmi
Encounter with the Sirens
Eid
Snow
Kashmir 1987
Poems from Sun and Moon
Pakistan Movement
Sun and Moon
WAQAS AHMAD KHWAJA
Poem from Six Geese From a Tomb at Medum
April
Poems from Miriam's Lament and Other Poems
The Legend of Roda and Jallali
Among Burning Nettles
The Tribal Shadow
The Legend of Roda and Jalalli
M. ATHAR TAHIR
Trolley Man
Poems from Just Beyond the Physical
Border Line
Carpet-weaver
This Sun is my Sun
Circles
Elegy
Brass Objects
Eid '75
MONIZA ALVI
Poems from The Country at my Shoulder
I Would Like to be a Dot in a Painting by
Miro
Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan
Poems from A Bowl of Warm Air
The Double City
The Wedding
The Colours of the World
A Bowl of Warm Air
HANIF KUREISHI
Extracts from My Beautiful Laundrette
SARA SULERI
Extract from Meatless Days
AAMER HUSSEIN
The Lost Cantos of the Silken Tiger
HINA FAISAL IMAM Poems from Midnight
Dialogue
Motherhood and Frustration
The Road
Solitude
Childhood Musician
MANSOOR Y. SHEIKH
Shalimar
Poem
For Lowell
QAISRA SHAHRAZ AHMAD
The Visiting Grandmother
MOEEN FARUQI
Partition
The Crows
Letter from Home
The Return
PERVEEN PASHA Poems from Shades of Silence
A Tribute to Mandela
Beyond the Veil
MOAZZAM SHEIKH
Rains of the Monsoon
SORAYYA Y. KHAN
Extract from In the Shadows of the Margalla Hills
TARIQ LATIF
Poems from Skimming the Soul
Masunda
Water Snakes
Poems from The Minister's Garden
From Symbols to Components
The Chucky
HARRIS KHALIQUE Poems from If Wishes Were Horses
The Retired Old Bureaucrat, Next Door
In London
NADEEM ASLAM
Extracts from Season of the Rainbirds
GLOSSARY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX
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