Moniza Alvi

This is Moniza Alvi's first full-length poetry collection, and includes a number of poems which won the 1991 Poetry Business Competition. At the heart of the collection is a group of poems called "Presents from Pakistan," which explores the gathering significance to the poet of her birthplace. Many people today have a "country at their shoulder"--a homeland left behind, or a birthplace seldom, perhaps never, visited, but nevertheless a vital part of their imaginary and real lives. Highlighting the uneasy as well as the celebratory, these poems are diverse in both subject and approach. They are written with a light touch, but they are rich in imagery, and the poet's voice, though delicate, is distinct and memorable.

The Country at My Shoulder

'Split World' contains poems from five collections by Moniza Alvi, who left Pakistan to live in England when she was a baby. She draws on real and imagined homelands and concerns herself with divisions between East and West, between inner and outer worlds, imagination and reality, the physical and the spiritual.

Poems, 1990-2005

Split World

Jules Supervielle

A collection of the French poet's works with both the original French versions and the English translations.

Moniza Alvi

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