Since then, Moniza Alvi has written four poetry collections. Moniza Alvi born 2 February is a Pakistani-British poet and writer. She has won several well-known prizes for her verse. Moniza Alvi Writer. Moniza Alvi fans also viewed:. Gustave Flaubert.
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Part 3: Better By Far By bus? Better by far a magic carpet, finely …. Part 4: Ever After Ever after she heard it as an echo in her inner ear, …. About Poetry International Archives. United Kingdom. Back to Profile. Photos Works. Main Photo. Moniza Alvi. School period Add photo. Career Add photo. But she has become a truly multicultural writer who deals with the problems of spanning West and East and the at times fraught relationship between them.
Whimsical fantasy has increasingly given way to darker allegorical imagery, as is apparent in her new book Europa , whose lengthy centrepiece poem concerns the rape of Europa by Jupiter disguised as a bull. Being of mixed race and having been brought to Britain from Pakistan as a small child, Alvi sometimes inhabits a persona who anxiously felt herself "translated into an English girl", or even of no fixed nationality. Her poems remain highly conscious of places, people and a cultural heritage elsewhere that can only be partially connected with.
In beautifully expressing this dilemma, and perhaps because of its apparently child-like imagination, her work has been widely studied in schools Alvi herself is a former schoolteacher. While she has some affinities with other contemporary poets such as Sujata Bhatt and Mimi Khalvati, one might also think of Stevie Smith and — perhaps most significantly — the rich tradition of magic realism in much writing associated with the Subcontinent.
The magical transformations in her work have been likened to paintings by Chagall or the Surrealists. It is included in her first collection The Country at My Shoulder The clothing is suggestive of cultural and personal layers, which are "stretched from Lahore to Hyderabad". Amidst the details of family and social life, cultural differences and similarities abound. Carrying My Wife marked an imaginative new direction in her work, with most of its poems taking the voice of a husband trying to understand — sometimes even struggling to describe - his wife.
The shifting nature of relationships, especially when taken over by pregnancy, gives a richly paradoxical viewpoint on both fantasy and reality. Then he imagines himself pregnant, "a man impregnated with light and dark" until "at last I awoke with a glass abdomen".
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