Luck is the Hook by Imtiaz Dharker Degna Stone Amy Key’s Isn’t Forever is

Amy Key’s Isn’t Forever is a grimoire for feminine selfhood in a world where a sense of self is flimsy

bungled chances

of individual sensibility and the chronicling of quotidian collective drama

’ August Kleinzahler

for the tenderness between a man and his ‘beautiful collared dog’

Luck is the Hook by Imtiaz Dharker Degna Stone Amy Key’s Isn’t Forever isWinner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2014 Imtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of her