Ramazan Libation: Selected Poems

Alamgir Hashmi has been writing poetry for the past forty years. Recipient of many major literary prizes, he was the first English-language writer to bring such recognition to English writing in Pakistan. Equally well-known as author of several scholarly books, he has been Professor of English and Comparative Literature in Pakistan, Europe and the United States. He was a judge of the Commonwealth Literature Prize in 1992 and a member of the 1996 jury for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

"Hashmi is now widely recognised as Pakistan's premier English-language poet and a major literary voice form Asia." Carlo Coppola; "It's the range of his voice and material, the willingness to travel wherever knowledge and experience might take him, that mark Hashmi as vital. He is also a political poet of courage, a poet of understanding, respect and 'justice'... this is a new and vigorous selection that shows the poet in all his diversity. His is a voice that belongs wherever it is read." John Kinsella"