Imtiaz Dharker
About Imtiaz Dharker
Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and video film maker, awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014. In 2020 she became Chancellor of Newcastle University. She has been Poet in Residence at Cambridge University Library and worked on several projects across art forms in Leeds, Newcastle and Hull as well as the Archives of St Paul’s Cathedral. Her six collections include Over the Moon and the latest, Luck is the Hook, with poems featured widely on radio, television, the London Underground and Mumbai buses. She has had eleven solo exhibitions of drawings.