Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
Yasmeen Hameed has authored five books of poetry in Urdu. These are Pas-e Ᾱ’īnā (1988), Hisār-e Bē Dar-o-Dīvār (1991), Ādẖā Din Aur Ᾱdẖī Rāt (1996), Fanā Bẖī Ēk Sarāb (2001) and Bē Samar Pēṛoṅ Kī Kvāhish (2012). The first four books were collectively published under the title Dūsrī Zindagī (700 pages) in 2007. A selection of her poetry titled Hum Do Zamānon Mēn Paidā Hūē was published in 2018. Her book, Pakistani Urdu Verse was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. She has edited and translated this anthology of the Urdu nazm, introducing sixty-three Urdu poets of the post-Iqbal period. She has compiled and edited Daybreak: Writings on Faiz published by Oxford University Press in 2013. She has also compiled and edited Nayā Urdu Afsānā published by Sang-e Meel Publications in 2014. Her poetry was published in translation in Granta, 112 Pakistan from London, UK and five of her poems in translation are included in an anthology called Modern Poetry of Pakistan, published by Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign. Her poems in translation were also published in Atlanta Review: Pakistan, Spring and Summer 2014. Fourteen of her poems with English translation were published in Three Contemporary Artists by Iffat Sayeed, published in 2019 by the University of Punjab, Lahore. She was Guest Editor of Pakistani Literature (English), published by the Pakistan Academy of Letters, Islamabad and has edited seven volumes of the journal, including two volumes of a special issue on women writers from Pakistan. She has extensively translated Urdu poetry into English. She has contributed to the column called Poetic Justice of the Books & Authors section of the daily Dawn, through which she introduced and translated forty-two contemporary Urdu poets. Her third collection of poetry was awarded the National Allama Mohammed Iqbal Award for the best book of poetry for the year 1996. Her fourth collection was awarded the Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi Award for the best book of poetry for the year 2001. Her book, Pakistani Urdu Verse was awarded the UBL/Jang Literary Excellence Award in 2012. In 2006, she received the Fatima Jinnah Medal for Literature by the Government of Punjab. In 2008, she was awarded the Tamgha-e Imtiaz for Literature by the Government of Pakistan. Apart from her work in literature, Yasmeen Hameed has over thirty years of experience in the filed of education. She was the Founder Director of the Gurmani Centre for South Asian Languages and Literature in the Social Sciences Department at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and is the founder of the Lahore Alma School.
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