Going For A Curry

MUDFOG PRESS launches a new book of poems
about Mangla Dam
by
KHADIM HUSSAIN:

WALAYAT DEKO

THURSDAY 6TH. NOVEMBER 7.30 PM at the INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, 7 Abingdon Road, Middlesbrough.

Everyone welcome. Free entry and tea/coffee/biscuits. Come and join in an evening of great poetry reading.

‘See Britain!’ jokes the sophisticated stewardess to a young boy from rural Pakistan catching the English winter and its first fever on the plane’s steps. Khadim Hussain’s poems chart the highs and lows of countless such arrivals: dreams of prosperity that wake to mixed realities; memories of home irretrievable from time’s blank floods. He captures changing perspectives with bittersweet tenderness and wit, with inventive and revealing shifts of diction, rhythm and tone.

Hussain draws impressively on his historical knowledge and deep roots in the Asian community and, sometimes with a humorous flourish, sometimes with a profoundly moving vision, contemplates past, childhood and tradition in Pakistan and confronts realities and identity in modern Britain.
Andy Willoughby, Teesside poet and editor with Ek Zuban.

Khadim Hussain’s work carries all the ins and outs of Asian culture and heritage and will be read by all with a lot of interest. He is so much more than a local writer and is worthy of wide renown.
Hazrat Shah, Urdu poet and editor with Aaina and Tadeeb International.

The International Centre with readily available on-street parking and easy access is on Abingdon Road just off Borough Road. From the A66, take the A172 Marton Road and turn right into Borough Road, then first left into Abingdon Road. Tel. 01642 245967 if you need directions on the night.

In Walayat, the fabled land of
Streets paved with gold,
I pull loaded trolleys
Under neon lights.