Alamgir Hashmi is Pakistan's leading English language poet. He is also well known as a literary scholar and has been a university professor since the early seventies in Pakistan, the United States and Switzerland. A recipient of the National Literary Prize of the Pakistan Academy of Letters, he will read from his new book http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/catalogue/view_product.php'product=116 (The Ramazan Libation) (Arc).

Admission: £3

Morden Tower
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Newcastle upon Tyne
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