Pakistani Urdu verse: translated and edited by Yasmeen Hameed. an anthology/

Noon Meem Rushed
1910-1975
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
1911-1984
Meeraji
1912-1949
Majeed Amjad
1914-1974
Life
Israfil's Death
In the Deep Silence of an Endless Night
The Meeting
Colour of My Heart
To the Ocean Must All Return
Love
Abandoned Dwellings
Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi Priceless
1916-2006 ... said the Darkness
Aziz Hamid Madani
1922-1991
Wazir Agha
b. 1922
Munir Niazi
1923-2006
Zia Jalandhari
b. 1923
Ada Jaffery
b. 1924
De.scent
Wayward Stream of Sleep
Postmortem
Freedom
He is Dead Silent
In the Midst of a Journey
Two Houses in My Dream Last Night
The Metropolis
My Own Moment
My Dear
Gilani Kamran
1926-2003
Saleem Ahmed
The Old Teacher
1927-1984
A Dream
Ahmed Shamim
1929-1982
Hasan Abidi
1929-2005
Mustafa Zaidi
1930-1970
Ahmed Faraz
1931-2008
Akhtar Hiisain Jaafri
1932-1992
Asad Muhammad Khan
b. 1932
Javed Shaheen
1932-2008
Shehzad Ahmad
b. 1932
Aftab Iqbal Shamim
b. 1933
M. Salim-ur-rahman
b. 1934
Zehra Nigah
b. 1935
Revelalion
SiiDwman
A Moment's Journey on Sand
Two Worlds
Egypt
Alone 1 Stand
Sleep
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1 Fear the Unsafe Night
The Deluge at Dawn
Sky in the Window
The Smallest Pyramid of Giza
Body on the Peg
To Live
The Time is Six o'clock
A Market-place...this World
The Street
Untitled
Perhaps Today...
Justice
Right here was the Ocean
id/i;
Saqi Farooqi
b. 1935
Iftikhar Jalib
1936-2003
Zahid Dar
b. 1936
Anis Nagi
b. 1939
Faruq Hassan
b. 1939
Ahmad Hamesh
b. 1940
Kishwar Naheed
In Defence
The Spider
Fresh Flowers of Love
A Poem
My Madness
Woman and I....3
A Din All Around
Unattainable
Story of My Life
Lament
What Direction, which Path
b. 1940
Anticlockwise
Khurshid Rizvi
b. 1942
Shabnam Shakeel
b. 1942
Iftikhar Arif
b. 1943
Amjad Islam Amjad
b. 1944
Abdul Rashid
b. 1945
Nasreen Anjum Bhatti Rats
Chilli on the Tongue
A Thought
Accountability
Dreams Held in Pledge
Warning
A Bad Omen
A Few More Days
The Tragedy of Self-made People
A Love Poem
I Am the Best
Lament
b. 1945 Every Girl
Sarmad Sehbai
b. 1945
Afzal Ahmed Syed
b. 1946
Fahmida Riaz
b. 1946
Shaista Habib
1946-2004
Muhammad
Izhar-ul-Haq
b. 1948
Saadat Saeed
Commonplace Love
Portrait
The Hanging
A Desire in My Heart
Tongue of Stone...(2)
To a Girl
Do not Question
When the Drum was Sounded
A Poem for Trees
b. 1949
What I Feel
Sarwat Husain
1949-1996
Azra Abbas
b. 1951
Seasons of Descent
A Bridge being Built
Wishing to Die a Man's Death
Hands on the Table
A Fear
Ghulam Hussain Sajid The Story of a Heritage
b. 1951
Perveen Shakir
1952-1994
Fatema Hassan
b. 1953
Shahida Hasan
b. 1953
Abrar Ahmad
b. 1954
Soliloquy
Working Woman
Another Day
Balloon
Fighting the Passing Moment
A Dense Crowd
If 1 Were To...
Where Lies the Remedy
Naseer Ahmed Nasir Whirling Death
b. 1954 The Fifth Loner
Shaheen Mufti
b. 1954
O Chaste Wind
Darkness Reigns
Ali Muhammad Farshi Living Death does not Erode
b. 1955
Ishrat Aafreen
b. 1956
Zahid Masud
b. 1956
Tanveer Anjum
b. 1957
Mansoora Ahmed
b. 1958
Samina Raja
b. 1958
Waheed Ahmed
b. 1959
Rafiq Sandeelvi
b. 1961
Zeeshan Sahil
1961-2008
Harris Khalique
b. 1966
Ravish Nadeem
b. 1967
Farrukh Yar
b. 1968
About the Translator/Editor
The Sleep-fairy's Death
Words
Roses and Cotton
The Murmur of Long Nights
For Sale
Nilofar and I
Look at the Sky from Here
Why was the Earth Created
The Cud-chewer
We are Poets
When the Day Dawned
The Roach Flew Away
A House to Remain Empty
Why Tears
Rush
The Metaphor
The Elusive Sand of Nirvana
A Poem
We are to Just...