Imtiaz Dharker

Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and video film maker, awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2014 She has been Poet in Residence at Cambridge University Library and worked on several projects across art forms in Leeds, Newcastle, Manchester and Hull as well as the Archives of St Paul’s Cathedral. Her seven collections include Over the Moon and the latest, Shadow Reader, with poems featured on radio, television, the London Underground, Glasgow billboards and Mumbai buses. She has had eleven solo exhibitions of drawings 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 in India. ‘Reading her, one feels that were there to be a World Laureate, Imtiaz Dharker would be the only candidate.' Carol Ann Duffy