Rakhshan Rizwan Books

Whats your favourite food? Whos your best friend? Have you tried to grow a rock? Arent beards weird? Did you ever move house and miss where you used to live? Didnt a lot change when the pandemic started? My Sneezes Are Perfect is a collection of poems in the voice of a small boy who wants to tell you about all the things hes learning, all the time. During the book, he moves from the Netherlands to America and has to adjust to his new life there. Then Covid-19 hits and his world changes all over again...

Focusing on Kashmiri life narratives, this book explores how storytelling in human rights contexts can highlight themes of pleasure and happiness rather than solely physical pain. It challenges traditional scholarly approaches by showcasing how these narratives advocate for human rights through positive representations, offering a fresh perspective on the intersection of storytelling and advocacy in the context of human rights.

The poems in this pamphlet examine the vexed issues of class, linguistic and cultural identity, especially female identity, in the context of Pakistan, and in the broader context of South Asia.

Europe, Love Me Back is a collection of relentlessly questing, sharply satirical poems about the continent, and the poet’s fraught relationship with it.