Omer Tarin
Omer Tarin (born 1967), also spelled Omar Tarin[1], is a Pakistani poet.
Career and poetry
Tarin was born in Peshawar in North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa).[2]:vi He was educated at the Burn Hall School (now Army Burn Hall College), Abbottabad and the Aitchison College, Pakistan, prior to graduating from the University of the Punjab, Lahore.[3] He has published five volumes of poetry in English, including A Sad Piper (1994), as well as poems published elsewhere later.[4] From 2008 to 2015 he ran an education institute in Northern Pakistan.[5]
Omer Tarin's poetry is deeply influenced by the mystic tradition of the Sufi and Bhakti poets[6][7][8][9] Tarin also has an interest in Japanese Culture and haiku and Buddhism.[10][11] One of Tarin's early poetic mentors was Taufiq Rafat, one of the pioneers of English poetry in Pakistan/South Asia,[12] and a scholar of Punjabi Sufic poetry.[13] Tariq Rahman has commented on Rafat's influence on Tarin and has said that "a certain force of vitality" and creative "intensity" is to be found in Tarin's writings.[14]
According to some critics Tarin's poetic style is marked by 'evocative imagery'[15] and a 'musical quality'[16].
Books
Tarin's publications include:
- A Sad Piper: Poems (1994 first edition) ISBN 969-8127-03-8 Search this book on
. - The Anvil of Dreams: Poems (1995) ISBN 969-8127-04-6 Search this book on .
- Burnt Offerings, Poems (1996) ISBN 969-8127-07-0 Search this book on .
- The Harvest Season of Love Songs: Poems (1997) ISBN 969-8127-11-9 Search this book on .
- Riverbeds Flowing: Poems (1999; reprint 2009) privately published in limited editions
- Sepoys and Sowars: Historical Essays (2000) ISBN 969-814-01-07 Search this book on .
- Selected Shorter Essays (2011) ISBN 978-1-105-15532-1 Search this book on .
- From Hill and Plain: Selected Short Stories (2011) ISBN 978-1-105-18623-3 Search this book on .
See also
References
- ↑ "WorldCat identity n99011238".
- ↑ Tarin, Omer (1994). A Sad Piper. Islamabad: Leo Books. ISBN 9698127038. Search this book on
- ↑ Luminita Karim, article on Omer Tarin in Weekly Featured Poetry Review, in "The Muslim" daily, Islamabad and Lahore ed, 28 October 1994, p. 18
- ↑ "Journeying". Muse India. No. 73. May 2017. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
- ↑ See 'The News' international daily, Omer Tarin's Literary comments/Book review The News International, Islamabad, Pakistan ed 27 June 2010; also see the Prachya Review, online ed of Sept 2015, which gives the information that Omer Tarin ran a small research and educational institute, no name of the institute is given
- ↑ Ayesha Sadozai. Safar-Namah by Omer Tarin: A Critical Note, in Ellipsis literary magazine, Vermont, USA 2013.p 18
- ↑ "Sufi Poetry of Hazrat Syed Meher Ali Shah". Muse India. No. 73. May 2017. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
- ↑ Mazhar ul Islam, in the Foreword to ‘The Harvest of Love Songs’ , Islamabad, 1997, ISBN: , p ix
- ↑ Luminita Karim, 'The emotive poetry of a moved soul' , Featured Review in 'The Muslim' Islamabad and Lahore edition, 28th October 1994, as cited above
- ↑ The Mainichi shimbun, Japan, issue of 15 August 1998; present Japanese website http://mainichi.jp
- ↑ Also see comparison/mention of Buddhism/the Buddha imagery in the Gandhara civilization of South Asia in Omer Tarin’s poem ‘Gandhara, at the Taxila Museum’ (from The Anvil of Dreams, 1995) and Zulfikar Ghose’s [dubious ] work on a similar theme. In Mansoor Abbasi, Introduction to the monograph ‘’Zulfikar Ghose: The Lost Poet of the Punjab’’. Cambridge UK: Cambridge UP, ISBN 9781443879774 Search this book on ., page 12
- ↑ A Review of Pakistani poetry with special reference to Rafat Retrieved 4 December 2015
- ↑ Tarin, "Taufiq Rafat: In Memoriam", obituary in The Pulse weekly, Islamabad, 30 Sept-6 Oct 1998, n.p
- ↑ See Dr Tariq Rahman, Review of Omer Tarin's poetry in the Section 'Pakistani Literature in English' in 'The News' international, Islamabad ed, Pakistan, 6 December 1996
- ↑ Muneeza Shamsie , Dawn daily, annual literary review (Round Up) , Karachi, Pakistan 30th December 1994
- ↑ Prof Dr Eric Cyprian, Review in daily the 'Muslim', Lahore edition, 7th July 1995, p 7
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