Author(s)/Editor(s): Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
Publisher: Makina Books
Pages: 92
Dimentions: 186 x 150 mm
Format: Softcover
Year: 2021
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal was born in the Himalayan town of Palampur, India. She studied at St. Bede’s College, Shimla; Trinity College, Dublin; and Queen’s University, Belfast. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, German and Italian, and have recently appeared in Ambit, Banshee, Gutter, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Jukebox, Poetry London, The Bombay Literary Magazine, The Irish Times, The Lonely Crowd, The Pickled Body, The Tangerine and elsewhere. In 2018, she was one of the twelve poets selected for Poetry Ireland’s ‘Introductions’ series. She is the 2021 Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent. The Yak Dilemma is her first full-length collection.
‘Dhaliwal writes with a rich fluency of tongues, evoking pathos and pleasure in equal measure.’
— Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, author of Auguries of a Minor God
‘Dhaliwal is an important and vibrantly exciting new voice in poetry.’
— Rebecca Tamás, author of WITCH and Strangers
‘These are songs of belonging and of movement, of fluid identity, carefully crafted and always graceful.’
— Seán Hewitt, author of Tongues of Fire