Zaffar Kunial sa vo svojej poézii kreatívne ponára do svojho bohatého kultúrneho dedičstva anglo-ázijského spisovateľa a „odkazu odovzdávania slov naprieč storočiami“. Jeho dielo, chválené pre svoju precíznosť, originalitu a pôvab, sleduje korene v jazyku a zároveň skúma jeho zmiešanú rasovú identitu. Kunial sa pohybuje medzi kultúrnymi vzdialenosťami a spojeniami medzi Grasmere a Kašmírom, pričom formálne využíva širokú škálu metrík a štýlov. Jeho poézia, ktorá často čerpá inšpiráciu z klasických diel, nachádza humor aj v momentoch odpojenia a oslavuje drobné jazykové záhady.
History in the making -the way history turns in the air like a coin -Cricket was a major part of the poet Zaffar Kunial's childhood when growing up near the Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham. or the timeless still point of a hit ball - Six is a collection for lovers of poetry and cricket alike.
Zaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single words, of a sound, a colour, the name of a flower, and putting them back together so that we see them in an entirely different light.
Yet his territory extends much further afield than those of the past - through Kashmir, where his father was born and now lives, to the Midlands of his mother's birth, and further north to ancestors in Orkney, as well as through language, memory and time.
New poems by Steve Ely, Zaffar Kunial, Denise Riley, Warsan Shire, and John Glenday