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There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either. We are not running after money here, as we are rather hungry for good poetry. And this is, once again, an opportunity for us to satisfy our hunger with Zakir’s poetic world. Those who read his poetry know that his poetic world is rich, and significantly original.

Translating Migration: Multilingual Poems of Movement brings together the poetic voices of migrants across regions, languages, and circumstances. As a collection of intertwined poetry by migrant workers, asylum seekers, refugees, and recent immigrants, Translating Migration deliberately questions the divisions between diverse human experiences of movement.

When Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam and Eve, meet each other and the Serpent in a mysterious park, the story of the Garden of Eden gets re-examined. This is a dramatic fiction dealing with the man's first disobedience against god, according to the Bible. This compelling, philosophical novel encourages the real growth of mankind, breaking out of psychological slavery imposed by outside forces. The unique style of the novel goes beyond the boundary of the traditional literary genres.

This book consists of poems that signify the events of life. No matter what life brings for us to experience on our own - dark or bright, high or low, joy or sorrow - it all enriches us with great lessons. Life is our master indeed. Life, You Are the Master! contains select thought-provoking, original poems written over the period of 2007-2015, in different countries such as England, Germany, Poland, and Bangladesh. It also includes 10 beautiful haikus.

Misery, love, freedom - that is the philosophical order of the book. The last poem, "The Prophet", is the target point, and all else is an educational journey within this very life to reach the final destination: the prophetic wisdom, the ultimate freedom. Our struggles, frustrations, confusion, fears - through all these we search for the ways to be free; we try to love, we try to be loved, conditionally and unconditionally.... All these experiences slowly grow us up over a period of time.

A poetry book containing 65 transformative poems.