Zaffar Kunial attinge creativamente alla sua ricca eredità culturale di scrittore anglo-asiatico, esplorando quella che lui definisce "l'eredità dello scambio di parole attraverso i secoli". Elogiata per la sua precisione, originalità e grazia, la sua opera traccia le radici linguistiche esaminando al contempo la sua identità di razza mista. Kunial naviga tra le distanze culturali e le connessioni tra luoghi come Grasmere e il Kashmir, impiegando una versatile gamma di tecniche formali. La sua poesia, che spesso fa riferimento a predecessori letterari, trova umorismo nella disconnessione e celebra i piccoli misteri del linguaggio.
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