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Presents From My 'Aunts' In Pakistan
"Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan" is a poem by Moniza Alvi. Alvi describes a few gifts that she receives from her aunts. This is a metaphor for her Pakistani culture, and she says how much it clashes with her English culture. The poem is about the poet's struggle to find which culture she truly belongs to; Pakistani or English. It is included in Cluster 2, Poems from Different Cultures, of the ''AQA Anthology The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (the AQA) has produced Anthologies for GCSE English and English Literature studied in English schools. This follows on from AQA's predecessor organisations; Northern Examinations and Assessment Board (NE ...''. References {{AQA Anthology External linksPoem Hunter English poems Pakistani poems ...
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Moniza Alvi
Moniza Alvi (born 2 February 1954) is a Pakistani-British poet and writer. She has won several well-known prizes for her verse. Life and education Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore, Pakistan, to a Pakistani father and a British mother. Her father moved to Hatfield, Hertfordshire, in England when she was a few months old. She did not revisit Pakistan until after the publication of one of her first books of poems – ''The Country at My Shoulder''. She worked for several years as a high-school teacher but is currently a freelance writer and tutor, living in Norfolk. Poetry ''Peacock Luggage'', a book of poems by Moniza Alvi and Peter Daniels, was published after the two poets jointly won the Poetry Business Prize in 1991, in Alvi's case for "Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan". That poem and "An Unknown Girl" have featured on England's GCSE exam syllabus for young teenagers. Since then, Moniza Alvi has written four poetry collections. ''The Country at My Shoulder'' (1993) led to h ...
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AQA Anthology
The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (the AQA) has produced Anthologies for GCSE English and English Literature studied in English schools. This follows on from AQA's predecessor organisations; Northern Examinations and Assessment Board (NEAB) and Southern Examining Group (SEG). 2000 Anthology The 2000 AQA anthology covered four sections: poets in the English Literary Heritage, poems from other cultures and traditions, 20th-century prose, and 20th- or pre-20th-century poetry. English: Poets in the English Literary Heritage Simon Armitage *"I Am Very Bothered When I Think" *"Poem" *"It Ain't What You Do, It's What It Does To You" *"Cataract Operation" *"About His Person" Ted Hughes *"Works and Play" *"The Warm and the Cold" *"The Tractor" *"Wind" *"Hawk Roosting" Carol Ann Duffy *"War Photographer" *"Valentine" *"Stealing" *"Before You Were Mine" *"In Mrs. Tilscher's Class" English: Poems from other cultures and traditions *Sujata Bhatt: " Search for My Tongue" * Tom Le ...
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English Poems
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