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Midnight, Dhaka
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Artikel-Nr:
9781781721599
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.06.2014
Seiten:
64
Autor:
Mir Mahfuz Ali
Gewicht:
113 g
Format:
208x135x5 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Mir Mahfuz Ali has worked as a male model, a tandoori chef, and as a dancer and actor. He is renowned for his extraordinary voice and has given readings and performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and elsewhere; on BBC Newsnight Review, Radio 4, and the World Service. His poetry has appeared in London Magazine, Poetry London, Poetry Review, and PN Review.
Mir Mahfuz Ali is an exceptional new voice in British poetry; native of what is now Bangladesh, Mahfuz grew up during the difficult period of the early 1970s when the region was struck, first by a devastating cyclone, then by a particularly vicious civil war. As a boy, Mahfuz witnessed atrocities and writes about them with a searing directness in poems like "My Salma" and the title poem. But much more than this, his trauma becomes transformative, and his poetry the key to unlocking memories of a childhood that are rich in nuance, gorgeous in detail, and evocative of a beautiful country. They celebrate the human capacity for love, survival and renewal.