Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and video film maker, awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014. Her six collections, all published by Bloodaxe Books, include Over the Moon (2014) and Luck is the Hook (2018). Her poems have featured widely on BBC radio, television, the London Underground, Glasgow billboards, and Mumbai buses! She has had eleven solo exhibitions of drawings. She also scripts and directs video films, many of them for non-government organisations working in the area of shelter, education and health for women and children in India. Imtiaz Dharker appears at Kaavya Dhaara: The HLF Poetry Festival with the support of the International Literature Showcase Collaboration Fund. The International Literature Showcase is a partnership between the National Centre for Writing and the British Council. (Online live).

Year: 2022