Shadow Reader by Imtiaz Dharker
Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Summer 2024 Gillian Allnutt And ever-present through the collection

And ever-present through the collection is Athens – the city the poet once turned his back on at eighteen but has come to love again

the biodiversity of which is equal to that of the whole of England

might we find what Gary Snyder described as 'the real world to which we belong' and recover the means to save what we are destroying

from abstraction in visual art to atonality in music

Shadow Reader by Imtiaz Dharker<br><b>Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Summer 2024</b> Gillian Allnutt And ever-present through the collectionShadow Reader is a radiant criss cross of encounters, messages and Punjabi proverbs, shot through with the dark thread of an unwelcome prophecy. The poems bind this looming curse to the occupation of countries, the earth and its creatures, those who own the story and those who redirect it through art or artifice. Does the warp look back at the one who is weaving and say, This is not how I remember it? Imtiaz Dharkers collection pays attention to