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In Self-Portrait With Family, Amaan Hyder traces a personal history of family and queerness. With poems that focus on coming out, the collection depicts the relationship between a son and his parents, and an immigrant family and its community in the diaspora. Featuring snapshots of conversations across dinner tables and phone lines, Hyder’s striking and beautifully precise poems bring into relief what is said and not said, the retreat from speech and the longing to hear from another. By turns tender and skilfully observed, this collection also looks from the family home to the individual experience of the brown queer man in public spaces, searching for intimate connection whilst experiencing discrimination. Self-Portrait With Family distinctively frames such narratives of closeness and distance, exploring a range of poetic forms to draw together intergenerational familial and gay relationships, English and Urdu, the world of the family home and the world outside of it.

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""Rippling with violence and desire and tenderness, Self-Portrait with Family braids a complex pattern from generational, cultural and political history. A powerful and searching poet, both experimental and lyrical, Amaan Hyder has a formal instinct and flair that can contain multitudes."" -- Seán Hewitt

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Amaan Hyder’s first book of poems, At Hajj, was published by Penned in the Margins in 2017. His poetry has appeared in a range of publications including The Guardian, Poetry Review and Poetry London. He is a Ledbury Poetry Critic and has reviewed for the TLS, Poetry Birmingham and the Poetry School. His poem 'duas' won a Clore Prize in 2019, and his short story 'Postpositions' was shortlisted in the 4thWrite Short Story Prize 2021. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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