Imtiaz Dharker

Biography
Imtiaz Dharker was born in 1954 in Pakistan and grew up in Glasgow. She is an artist and a documentary film-maker as well as a poet. She lives between India, London and Wales.

LEAVING FINGERPRINTS (BLOODAXE, 2009)

 * Hand + Star -- Often the poems turn on the pun to make their quietus, as in the title’s double sense of making a mark and (less clearly) refusing or moving away from identifying marks, as if the dual motion of Dharker’s poetics were demanding 'recognition of fragmentary traces and refusing responsibility for their meaning.
 * The Guardian --  this integrity is only clearly visible in the overview. Consider the poems individually, and the picture tends to dissolve. 
 * Emel -- Though compliant with the basic concepts of post-colonial discourse, Dharker’s poetry remains relatively opaque; allowing little or no penetration.