Shadow Reader by Imtiaz Dharker
Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Summer 2024 #reggae It is a poetry of

It is a poetry of loss and of an intense politics of loss: we are given ‘DeExtinction Poems’ and ‘Notes on a Burning World’

prose and political nonsense rhymes

is absolute

Desnos was a hugely influential figure across all art forms at the time

This series of tenderly observed internal states

Shadow Reader by Imtiaz Dharker<br><b>Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Summer 2024</b> #reggae It is a poetry ofShadow Reader is a radiant criss cross of encounters, messages and Punjabi proverbs, shot through with the dark thread of an unwelcome prophecy. The poems bind this looming curse to the occupation of countries, the earth and its creatures, those who own the story and those who redirect it through art or artifice. Does the warp look back at the one who is weaving and say, This is not how I remember it? Imtiaz Dharkers collection pays attention to