Split World Poems, 1990-2005

Alvi, Moniza

Split World Poems, 1990-2005 - Tarset [England] Bloodaxe Books 2008 - 304 p 23/14/1,7 cm. Paperback

Includes index.

Moniza Alvi left Pakistan for England when a few months old. In her early work, she drew on real and imagined homelands in poems which are 'vivid, witty and imbued with unexpected and delicious glimpses of the surreal - this poet's third country' (Maura Dooley). Her less autobiographical later books are concerned not only with divisions between East and West but also with the interplay between inner and outer worlds, imagination and reality, physical and spiritual. "Split World" is published at the same time as Moniza Alvi's latest collection, "Europa", and includes poems from five previous collection: "The Country at My Shoulder" (1993), "A Bowl of Warm Air" (1996), "Carrying My Wife" (2000), "Souls" (2002) and "How the Stone Found Its Voice" (2005).

9781852248024 1852248025

2008278505


Poets--Women--20th Century

South Asian Diaspora


PO (Poetry)

PR9540.9.A55 / S65 2008

821.914