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Imtiaz Dharker

Born in Pakistan, raised in Glasgow, lives in London and Mumbai. Poet and artist.

Percy Bysshe ShelleyWilliam BlakeWilliam WordsworthRobert BrowningAlfred, Lord TennysonWilfred OwenSeamus HeaneyTed HughesSimon ArmitageJane WeirCarol Ann DuffyImtiaz DharkerCarol RumensJohn AgardBeatrice Garland

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3 quotes by or about Imtiaz Dharker, in the order they happen.

turned into your skin

Dharker · Tissue · power of humans · identity

Paper that becomes skin. Maps, receipts and records are all thin. So are we.

Paper that lets the light shine through

Dharker · Tissue · power of humans · power of nature

Thin paper lets light in. Dharker wants buildings and borders made that way too.

Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines

Dharker · Tissue · power of humans

Borders are lines on paper. The sun does not see them.

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The words of the book come from the AQA Poems Past and Present anthology, Power and Conflict cluster (poems quoted briefly for study; older poems are public domain). Every quote was checked against it. Paintings and drawings are public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, credited under each one. Notes by Akash Wadhwani. Copy it. Print it. Share it. No sign-up.
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