Art of Scratching Shazea Quraishi

Name: Art of Scratching By Shazea Quraishi
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First book-length collection by Pakistan-born, London-based poet featured in Bloodaxe's Ten: new poets from Spread the Word anthology in 2010.

Art of Scratching Summary

Art of Scratching by Shazea Quraishi

Taking inspiration from sources including historical and medical texts, curator's notes and the Complete Kama Sutra, Shazea Quraishi's poems explore love and loss through a range of voices: an Iraqi mother holds her fragile son; under the guise of ardour, a courtesan searches a client for signs of the woman she loves; a wife is unsettled by her husband's new family - The Art of Scratching is her first book-length collection, and includes The Courtesans Reply, a sequence written in response to the Caturbhani, four plays written around 300 BC on the life of courtesans in India.

Art of Scratching Reviews

'There is an intriguing collision between the archaeological and the lyrical in Shazea Quraishi's series of poems, The Courtesans Reply - The props and rituals bestow on these poems an exotic otherness but the emotions they explore are timeless' - Stephen Knight, Ten. 'Shazea Quraishi is one of a number of younger black and Asian women poets currently gaining ground in UK poetry. In sensual, clear, perfectly measured tones, her poems meet the male gaze with a female voice' - Katie Evans-Bush, Poetry International Web. 'Shazea Quraishi, in The Courtesans Reply, sensitively reconstructs an unfamiliar and vanished culture. Working from historical and literary sources, Quraishi never allows her research to speak louder than the human voices of her characters, a community of courtesans in Ancient India. Their individual feelings and desires emerge through lines which are simultaneously spare and sensuous' - Richard O'Brien, Poetry London.

About Shazea Quraishi

Shazea Quraishi was born in Pakistan, emigrated to Canada aged ten, and lived in Madrid before moving to London where she works as a writer, teacher and translator. A selection of her work was included in Bernardine Evaristo's Bloodaxe anthology Ten: new poets from Spread the Word in 2010. Her first pamphlet, The Courtesans Reply, was published by flipped eye in 2012. The Art of Scratching (Bloodaxe Books, 2015) is her first book-length collection.

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Sku

GOR006868310

ISBN 13

9781780372488

ISBN 10

1780372485

Title

Art of Scratching by Shazea Quraishi

Author

Shazea Quraishi

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Year published

20150521

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