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<\/strong> ABOUT THE ARTIST
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Moniza Alvi was born in Pakistan and grew up in Hertfordshire.<\/p>\n

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After working for many years as a secondary school teacher in London, she is now a freelance writer and tutor, and lives in Wymondham, Norfolk with her husband and daughter.<\/p>\n

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Her first two collections were published by Oxford University Press: The Country at My Shoulder<\/em> (1993), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Whitbread poetry prizes and selected for the New Generation poetry promotion, and A Bowl of Warm Air<\/em> (1996).<\/p>\n

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Her later poetry titles have all been published by Bloodaxe and include Split World<\/em>: Poems 1990-2005 (2008) and Europa<\/em> (2008) and At the Time of Partition<\/em> (2013). Both these last two books were Poetry Book Society Choices shortlisted for T.S. Eliot Prize.<\/p>\n

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In 2002-04 she was a trainee at the Westminster Pastoral Foundation studying counselling and group analysis.<\/p>\n

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Moniza Alvi     ABOUT THE ARTIST   Moniza Alvi was born in Pakistan and grew up in Hertfordshire.   After working for many years as a secondary school teacher in London, she is now a freelance writer and tutor, and lives in Wymondham, Norfolk with her husband and daughter.   Her first two collections … Continue reading Moniza Alvi<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c34-poetry-panel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bit.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rethinkyourmind.co\/newtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}