Zaffar Kunial se inspira creativamente en su rica herencia cultural como escritor angloasiático, explorando lo que él denomina "el legado del intercambio de palabras a lo largo de los siglos". Elogiada por su precisión, originalidad y gracia, su obra rastrea las raíces lingüísticas mientras examina su identidad multirracial. Kunial navega por las distancias y conexiones culturales entre lugares como Grasmere y Cachemira, empleando una versátil gama de técnicas formales. Su poesía, que a menudo hace referencia a predecesores literarios, encuentra humor en la desconexión y celebra los pequeños misterios del lenguaje.
History in the making -the way history turns in the air like a coin -Cricket was a major part of the poet Zaffar Kunial's childhood when growing up near the Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham. or the timeless still point of a hit ball - Six is a collection for lovers of poetry and cricket alike.
Zaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single words, of a sound, a colour, the name of a flower, and putting them back together so that we see them in an entirely different light.
Yet his territory extends much further afield than those of the past - through Kashmir, where his father was born and now lives, to the Midlands of his mother's birth, and further north to ancestors in Orkney, as well as through language, memory and time.
New poems by Steve Ely, Zaffar Kunial, Denise Riley, Warsan Shire, and John Glenday