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

for the tenderness between a man and his ‘beautiful collared dog’

Inua Ellams was poet in residence at the Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre in London

she is on a quest to view emotion from all possible angles

of individual sensibility and the chronicling of quotidian collective drama

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