Ebook: Over the Moon

Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of her books. Over the Moon is her fifth book from Bloodaxe. These are poems of joy and sadness, of mourning and celebration: poems about music and feet, church bells, beds, café t.;Cover; Description; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Like that only; Taal; Bombil, Bumla, Bummalo; Jurassic; Number 106; Hiraeth, Old Bombay; Wild; Gobstopper; Brookhouse; In Wales, wanting to be Italian; Not for the Vroom Vroom Vroom; Waiting for Crossrail; The first sight of the train; Rapt; The City; Undone; The Appointment; Watching the water; The cranes; Jewel-box; Alan or David or John; The day the marks made sense; Wean; Ghazals on the Grundig, Pingling in Pollokshields; Nicked; Speech balloon; Meanwhile at the Irani Bakery; Mumbai? Kissmiss?; Signs of life.