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World of Urdu Poetry
A wide selection of Urdu poetry, with script download facility.
http://www.shairy.com/
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Poetry and Photography
Private: International Review of Photographs and Texts # 39 (Special issue titled "I am Pakistani") offers some contemporary Pakistani English poems together with photography and short prose pieces.
http://www.privatephotoreview.com/en/review/private.php/riv/61
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Mermaid by Moniza Alvi
A recent poem by a poet of Pakistani origin.
http://www.versedaily.org/2008/mermaid.shtml
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Arrival 1946
A poem by Moniza Alvi.
http://markmeynell.wordpress.com/2007/06/02/arrival-1946-moniza-alvi/
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Attiya Dawood
The poem "The People of the Machine" has been translated from this young poet's original Sindhi.
http://attiyadawood.com/eng32.html
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Habib Jalib: Ten Poems
From Urdu and Punjabi, these are poems of late 1960s and early 1970s by this "People's Poet". Original text is given alongside in roman script.
http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv9n1/jalibpoems.htm
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Kishwar Naheed: Six Poems
Feminist Urdu poet's work translated into English by Rukhsana Ahmad.
http://www.jehat.com/Jehaat/en/Poets/KishwarNaheed.htm
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Parveen Shakir: Five Poems
First English translations of these poems from Cipher Journal.
http://www.cipherjournal.com/html/hashmi.html
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Parveen Shakir: Where Am I?
English and German translations of two Urdu poems by Parveen Shakir.
http://www.beilharz.com/poetas/shakir/
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Zeeshan Sahil
Sahil's "Bookworms" has been translated from his Urdu text.
http://www.urdustudies.com/pdf/08/17sahil.pdf
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