Obituaries for the Dead and the Undead

Description

Obituaries for the Dead and the Undead By Sara Javed Rathore

Sara Javed Rathore, the winner of the National Literary Award (for the year 2018) for her collection of poetry titled ‘Meraki‘, returns with her second collection of poetry titled ‘Obituaries for the Dead and the Undead‘. It is a series for letters addressed to adulthood, grieving, loss and to her homeland. It is divided into three distinct parts; “Obituaries for the Undead” which is a series of letters to the people you love and end up losing; “Obituaries for Patriotism” which critiques the system and the state, and “Obituaries for Self“, which is a collection of miscellaneous poems. It is raw, gritty, rough and very emotionally charged.

Author Biography

Sara Javed Rathore is an author and poet from Lahore, Pakistan. Her first collection of poetry, titled ‘Meraki‘, came out when she was only 16. In the year 2020, it won the Daud Kamal Presidential Award from the Pakistan Academy of Letters, associated with the Government of Pakistan for this collection. She has since then published another collection of poetry titled ‘Obituaries for the Dead and the Undead‘, which came out in 2022 and ‘Long Goodbye‘, which comes out in 2023. Sara is currently doing her Bachelors in English Literature at Kinnaird College for Women University. She also interns as a Radio-Jockey (RJ) for Radio Kinnaird 97.6 FM. Her poetry deals with themes of young adulthood, chronic illness, mental health, feminism and very often, love and tragedy, as well as political and revolutionary themes. She also interns for her university’s Dramatics Society as a novice playwright and content writer for events.