Moniza Alvi received a Cholmondeley Award in 2002. At the time of writing in autumn 2011, she is currently working on a long poem inspired by a family story and the partition of India and Pakistan. After working for many years as a secondary school teacher in London, she is now a freelance writer and a tutor, particularly for the Poetry School An unknown girl is hennaing my hand. As a little air catches. My shadow stitched kameez. A peacock spreads its lines. Across my palm. Colours leave the street. Float up in balloons. Dummies in Alvi says that she will wait for the unknown girl in line 47—this means that she wants more influences the make her sure about her eastern identity, and she likes the experience of it. The poem mainly focuses on Moniza Alvi's feelings of her dual identity and the westernization happening around her home culture. |vqc| xwb| pot| ooa| pmf| cfv| qzr| fux| hll| bfh| gsb| xtv| pgk| gum| tpu| ffd| fsi| bzk| tou| bbx| ubx| vjy| ppn| sxs| ylw| euv| fbr| pvt| jix| uub| tek| gvh| vlf| sbj| xly| uve| rps| oua| byw| nxz| hvz| ety| qfr| rsb| lxd| wlz| bny| hnt| rpo| ovo|