9:1 | Poets from Pakistan

ADDENDUM: Harris Khalique’s “Black Pepper Poem” was not printed in its entirety. Please see the full version here. Vallum extends apologies to the author and readers.

POETRY

• Zulfikar Ghose, Silent Birds \ The Attack on Sialkot
• Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Mosquée de Paris \ Anadolu
• Louise Carson, Houri
• Zarmina Rafi, How to Love a Photograph
• Waqas Khwaja, Triptych
• Mehvash Amin, Crow \ Ami
• Jeeva Haroun, Coral Dance \ Master
• Sehba Sarwar, Why Are You Looking at Me Like That? \ Doc 101: Intro to Life and How to Live It
• Moniza Alvi, At the Time of Partition
• Alamgir Hashmi, At Eighty-Six
• Harris Khalique, Black Pepper Poem
• Rayan Khan, Incubus
• Moeen Faruqi, Neighbourhood \ The Still Life of Apples
• Kyla Pasha, Poet Laureate
• Bilal Tanweer, Breaths \ Lightness \ The Bird of Sound
• Adrian Husain, Choir
• Mina Farid Malik, on humidifiers, and the buying thereof
• Shaista Justin, Winter’s Lion \ Not the End
• Sahar Rizvi, Shahtoos \ ‘78 Datsun
• Faraz Maqsood Hamidi, This 2 \ G.O.P.
• Shirin Haroun, Page Bird
• Sadaf Halai, Accidental \ On my Seventieth Birthday \ Summoning
• Sascha Akhtar, Raga
• Savera Hayat-Dade, Spaceships of Time
• Taimoor Shahid, Mon Livre Préféré \ 3:02 am
• Sascha Akhtar, The Sufi’s Sestina

CONTEST WINNERS

• 1st Place: Peter Richardson Telecommuting Spouses
• 2nd Place: Jack Miller Veninum Lupinum

ESSAY

• Ilona Yusuf, A Lively Progression: Mapping Pakistani Poetry

REVIEWS

• Lisa Sookraj, Just Like Her by Louise Dupré, Translated by Erin Mouré
• James Edward Reid, Modern Poetry of Pakistan, Iftikhar Arif and Waqas Khwaja, eds.
• Rob McClennan, Fluttertongue 5 by Steven Ross Smith
• John Kerkhoven, Rebuild by Sachiko Murakami

VISUAL ART

• Faiza Butt, Unless-4 (cover) \ All or Nothing \ Unless-2 \ Tales of Whopped Fantasies \ Get Out of my Dreams 2 \ Placebo for my Warrior \ I’ll be Safe in my Own Mind