Poetry in English from Pakistan is an ambitious ... Sara Shagufta writing in Punjabi and Hashim Babar in Pashto, among others. At about the same time, Waqas Khwaja crystalised the writers ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...