Moniza Alvi

Born in Pakistan, raised in Hertfordshire, living in London. Moniz'a work has been descripbed as ‘vivid, witty and imbued with unexpected and delicious glimpses of the surreal: this poet’s third country’ (Maura Dooley). Her new collection is How the Stone Found Its Voice (Bloodaxe).

The poems by Moniza featured on the jukebox are part of a new sequence of works that appear in her new collection. More from this sequence can be heard on Poetry in Performance Volume 2 (CD), for more information, please click here

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