{"id":34853,"date":"2024-10-15T17:28:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T15:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=34853"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:08:27","slug":"four-poems-from-modern-poetry-of-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/four-poems-from-modern-poetry-of-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Four poems from <em>Modern Poetry of Pakistan<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>The first anthology of its kind to appear in English, <em>Modern Poetry of Pakistan<\/em> brings together not one but many poetic traditions indigenous to Pakistan, with 142 poems translated from seven major languages, six of them regional (Baluchi, Kashmiri, Panjabi, Pashto, Seraiki, and Sindhi) and one national (Urdu). Collecting the work of forty-two poets and fifteen translators, this book reveals a society riven by ethnic, class, and political differences\u2014but also a beautiful and truly national literature, with work both classical and modern, belonging to the same culture and sharing many of the same concerns and perceptions.<\/h5>\n<div class=\"ose-vimeo ose-uid-4b207d2293f9b08007c9bc32509e5f86 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Vimeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Waqas Khwaja introduces the richness of &quot;Modern Poetry of Pakistan&quot; for Poetry Markaz\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1019906651?dnt=0&amp;app_id=122963&title=0&color=00ADEF&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0&loop=0&autopause=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Tanveer Abbasi<\/h4>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-34857\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Tanveer-Abbasi_Ghazal-The-Luster-of-a-Pearl-is-Something-Else-711x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Tanveer-Abbasi_Ghazal-The-Luster-of-a-Pearl-is-Something-Else-711x1024.jpg 711w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Tanveer-Abbasi_Ghazal-The-Luster-of-a-Pearl-is-Something-Else-600x864.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Tanveer-Abbasi_Ghazal-The-Luster-of-a-Pearl-is-Something-Else-208x300.jpg 208w, 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https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Fahmida-Riaz_Chador-and-the-Walled-Homestead-2-768x322.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Yasmeen Hameed<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-34864\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Yasmeed-Hameed_I-Am-Still-Awake-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Yasmeen Hameed I am Still Awake\" width=\"575\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Yasmeed-Hameed_I-Am-Still-Awake-1-2.jpg 1278w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Yasmeed-Hameed_I-Am-Still-Awake-1-2-600x810.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Yasmeed-Hameed_I-Am-Still-Awake-1-2-222x300.jpg 222w, 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His first collection of Sindhi poetry was released in 1958. In addition to several collections of poems, he also published critical essays and translations. He served a number of literary and academic institutions of Sindh in various administrative and teaching capacities and was for many years on the faculty of literature at Khairpur University. He died in 1994 in Islamabad<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Niazi, Munir (1928\u20132007)<\/strong> was one of the most significant and influential of contemporary Urdu poets who also published a brief collection of his Punjabi poetry that was just as well appreciated. His short poems evoke the uncanny, mingling the real and the unreal to create a strangely enticing sense of dismay and apprehension. Collections of his Urdu poetry include <em>Teiz Hawa aur Tanha Phool, Jungle Main Dhanak, Dushmanoon Kay Darmayan Sham, Mah-i-Munir, Chay Rangeen Darwaze, Aghaz-i-Zamistan Main Dobara, Sa\u2019at-i-Sayyar, Pehli Baat He Aakhri Thi, Aik Dua Jo Main Bhool Gaya, Sufaid Din Ki Hawa, Siah Shab Ka Samandar aur Sufaid Din Ki Hawa, Aik Musalsal, Us Bewafa Ka Sheher<\/em> and<em> Muhabbat Ab Nahi Ho Gi.<\/em>\u00a0 <em>Kulliyat-i-Munir<\/em> is a compilation of his collected works. The Government of Pakistan awarded him the President\u2019s Pride of Performance in 1992 and the Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 1998. He was also conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Pakistan Academy of Letters in 2002. He died in Lahore in 2007.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Riaz, Fahmida (1946\u20132018) <\/strong>was born in Meerut (British India). She is acknowledged to be in the front rank of modernist Urdu poets and one of the strongest feminist voices in the language. Deeply engaged with the issues of language and the working people, she preferred to write in a colloquial, sometimes even rustic, diction and avoided the more formal Persianized expression. Her works include<em> Pathar Ki Zuban, Badan Durida, Dhoop, Kiya Tum Poora Chand Na Daikho Gay?, Apna Jurm Sabit Hai, Hamrakab, <\/em>and<em> Adhoora Adami<\/em>. Her translations from the works of iconic Sindhi poets Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai and Shaikh Ayaz, as also of Rumi\u2019s <em>Masnavi<\/em>, in Urdu have received widespread appreciation from literary experts and readers alike. However, Fahmida Riaz was forced into exile because of her bold and liberal views by the military dictator Gen. Zia-ul-Haq, and found refuge in India frow where she was only able to return seven years later after Zia died in a plane crash. Fahmida was the recipient of the President\u2019s Pride of Performance in 2010, the Pakistan Academy of Letters\u2019 Kamal-e-Fun Award in 2014, and many other honors.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Hameed, Yasmeen (1951\u2013 )<\/strong> is a celebrated poet, critic, translator and educationist. Her work demonstrates an exquisite facility in both the classical and the modernist idiom. Her collections of verse include <em>Pas-i-Aaina, Hisar-i-be Dar-o- Diwar, Aadha Din aur Aadhi Raat<\/em>, <em>Fana bhi ek Saraab<\/em>, and <em>Doosri Zindagi. <\/em>She has translated a wide range of Urdu poetry into English as also the work of some notable poets from South Asian languages into Urdu. Yasmeen Hameed set up the Gurmani Centre for South Asian Languages and Literature at the Lahore University of Management Sciences and ran it for ten years as its founding director with great distinction. She received the Allama Iqbal Award for her collection of poems <em>Aadha Din aur Aadhi Raat<\/em> and has won almost all the top literary honors and awards of the country for her countless contributions to poetry, translation, literary criticism, and education in Pakistan. 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