Zaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single words, of a sound, a colour, the name of a flower, and putting them back together so that we see them in an entirely different light.
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Zaffar Kunial creatively draws upon his rich cultural inheritance as an Anglo-Asian writer, exploring what he terms "the legacy of exchanging words across the centuries." Praised for its precision, originality, and grace, his work traces linguistic roots while examining his mixed-race identity. Kunial navigates cultural distances and connections between places like Grasmere and Kashmir, employing a versatile range of formal techniques. His poetry, often referencing literary predecessors, finds humor in disconnection and celebrates the small-scale mysteries of language.
- 2022
- 2019
Six
- 24 pages
- 1 hour of reading
History in the making -the way history turns in the air like a coin -Cricket was a major part of the poet Zaffar Kunial's childhood when growing up near the Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham. or the timeless still point of a hit ball - Six is a collection for lovers of poetry and cricket alike.
- 2018
Us
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
Yet his territory extends much further afield than those of the past - through Kashmir, where his father was born and now lives, to the Midlands of his mother's birth, and further north to ancestors in Orkney, as well as through language, memory and time.
- 2014
The Pity
- 69 pages
- 3 hours of reading
New poems by Steve Ely, Zaffar Kunial, Denise Riley, Warsan Shire, and John Glenday
