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Luck is the Hook by Imtiaz Dharker Degna Stone for the tenderness between aWinner 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