The Goldfish by Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Imtiaz Dharker  Glad of These TimesÂ

 Glad of These Times (2007)

This extraordinary work will transform how you see the element in which we live

and it begins and ends at the boundaries of the Roman territory

Wales and London

The gorgeous and sometimes horrifying specificity she began by finding in her native South Africa she has gone on to find all over the world

The Goldfish by Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Imtiaz Dharker  Glad of These TimesÂThe Goldfish is a sumptuous, surreal exploration of femininity. The poet inhabits the voice of a goldfish through a series of linguistically experimental poems which plunge us into the glass bowl and invite us to gaze out. The poems are in turn sensual, spiky, and queasy, as the poet satirizes the patriarchy and issues a rallying cry for women broken down by society. Halfway through the book, the scope opens out to the world beyond the goldfish bowl,