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Poetry

Imtiaz Dharker is a poet and artist, and also makes video films. Awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014, she has received the Cholmondley Award and an Honorary Doctorate from SOAS, and has been Poet in Residence, Cambridge University Library. She has six collections of poems, including Over the Moon and the latest, Luck Is the Hook, all published by Bloodaxe Books UK. She has had eleven solo exhibitions of drawings around the world, and 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.

Here, she reads a selection of her works inspired by items from the exhibition.

Radha spies on Krishna

This work is inspired by an illustration from the Ghita Govinda

Face to Face

Another response to the works in the exhibition

Demon's rule

This worl taakes inspiration from an illustration from the Bhagavata Purana

The rose garden

This work is inspired by the Sa'di, of Shiraz

Story

Another work inspired by the Sa'di, of Shiraz

Regarding

This work was inspired by an 18th century album of depictions of Hindu mythology


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