Imtiaz Dharker

Taal

Idioma: inglés

Traducciones: alemán (Taal)

Taal

This music will not sit in straight lines.
The notes refuse to perch on wires

but move in rhythm with the dancer
round the face of the clock,
through the dandelion head of time.

We feel blown free, but circle back
to be in love, to touch and part
and meet again, spun

past the face of the moon, the precise
underpinning of stars. The cycle begins
with one and ends with one,

dha dhin dhin dha. There must be
other feet in step with us, an underbeat,
a voice that keeps count, not yours or mine.

This music is playing us.
We are playing with time.

Imtiaz Dharker

Foto © Ayesha Dharker

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Vive en: London, Reino Unido

Imtiaz Dharker is a Pakistani-Scottish poet, writer and artist. She lives in London and Mumbai, writes in English, has published six collections of poems, works among other things as a documentary maker in India and has shown her drawings in solo exhibitions in India, London, New York and Hong Kong. In her poetry she takes on topics such as homeland, freedom and travel in an imaginative and questioning way and points to cultural and geographical conflicts within society and gender politics, which has brought her the 2014 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and the Cholmondeley Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Her poems are on the UK GCSE and A-Level English curriculum. Each year she reads to more than 25,000 students at Poetry Live! events. Her documentaries, most of which she produces for and with NGOs, look at issues of women’s and children’s protection, education and health in India.

Foto © Ayesha Dharker

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