A Bowl of Warm Air (Oxford Poets S.) - Softcover

In this wonderful second collection, Moniza Alvi steps boldly into the territory she made her own in The Country at my Shoulder , a book which made her one of the chosen `New Generation' poets. A greater depth of seriousness infuses her poems on Pakistan and India, but she has retained her delicacy of spirit and the gentle surrealism that identifies her work. This book is intended for poets, readers of poetry, (women particularly?)

Born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1954, Moniza Alvi teaches English part-time at a girls' school in South London. Her first collection of poems The Country at my Shoulder (OPB, 1993) led to her being chosen as one of the New Generation' of poets.