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    The Glimmer
    The Glimmer
    The Glimmer
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    The Glimmer

    By Shazea Quraishi

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    The Glimmer is a book of poems illuminated by many voices. In an artists’ colony in Mexico, a taxidermist tends animals in their afterlife and contemplates what remains of us after death. She is joined by artists including a painter of miniatures, a war photographer, filmmaker, light artist, novelist and a ghazal singer, as well as dancers from Tanzteater Wuppertal, as they reflect on the impulse to make work and meaning in a world that increasingly monetises art. Shazea Quraishi’s second book-length collection ranges in form from syllabics and ghazals to OULIPO-inspired anagram poems, drawing on found text and verbatim speech to bring a choir of voices to life. The book ends with two elegies.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloodaxe Books
    Release dateSep 15, 2022
    ISBN9781780376349
    The Glimmer
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    Shazea Quraishi

    Shazea Quraishi is a Pakistan-born Canadian poet, playwritght and translator based in London. A selection of her work was included in the Bloodaxe anthology Ten: new poets from Spread The Word in 2010 and her first pamphlet, The Courtesans Reply, was published by Flipped Eye in 2012. The Art of Scratching, her first book-length collection, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015. ‘Shazea Quraishi’s first collection, The Art of Scratching, reveals the poet’s flair for re-imagining and feminizing historical texts, and for inventing her own edgy fables of family life and childhood.’ – Carol Rumens in Poem of the Week, The Guardian

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      The Glimmer - Shazea Quraishi

      SHAZEA QURAISHI

      The Glimmer

      The Glimmer is a meditation on the time-span of life illuminated by many voices. In an artists’ colony in Mexico, a taxidermist tends animals in their after-life, contemplating what remains of us after death. Among the artists she encounters are a painter of miniatures, a war photographer, a light artist, a ghazal singer, and dancers from Tanzteater Wuppertal, as they reflect on the impulse to make work and meaning in a world where value is increasingly monetised.

      Within the extended narrative are self-contained poems ranging in form from syllabics and ghazals to OULIPO-inspired anagram poems, drawing on found text and verbatim speech to bring a choir of voices to life. The title work is followed by two elegies.

      The Glimmer is Shazea Quraishi’s second full-length book of poetry, following her debut, The Art of Scratching.

      ‘Constraint, precision and technical mastery characterise this compelling and generous narrative of collective artistic endeavour. If the form is the measure of the obsession then this collection is a lifelong obsession with the truth-telling nature of art.’ – sasha dugdale on The Glimmer

      ‘Shazea Quraishi’s first collection, The Art of Scratching, reveals the poet’s flair for re-imagining and feminising historical texts, and for inventing her own edgy fables of family life and childhood.’ – carol rumens, online Poem of the Week, Guardian

      Cover art: Green Bird, Mughal, Indian school (17th century)

      GOUACHE ON PAPER (BRIDGEMAN IMAGES /THE STAPLETON COLLECTION)

      SHAZEA QURAISHI

      THE GLIMMER

      CONTENTS

      Title Page

      THE GLIMMER

      DAY 1

      A white mouse, a feeder mouse

      DAY 2

      A white mouse (2)

      DAY 3

      DAY 4

      A white mouse (3)

      DAY 5

      Rose drinker

      Spiny pocket mouse

      DAY 8

      Scott’s oriole

      DAY 10

      Volcano rabbit

      DAY 12

      DAY 13

      Mexican mouse opossum

      DAY 15

      DAY 16

      Great-tailed grackle

      DAY 18

      Fathom

      Idol, doll

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