Kaleem omar biography of martin
In Pakistan, the trauma of this event has led to a public amnesia addressed by the poet Kaleem Omar in his poem “It Didn't Really Happen.”.!
Martin's School of Arts in London, had vibrant intellectual and aesthetic life of Lahore, as were the poet Kaleem Omar, the architect.
He had undergone a bypass only a month before.
Omar was born in India in 1937 to an affluent family that owned the vast construction firm, Omar Sons. He went to school in Nainital, India, and then to England. After completing his studies, he came back to Pakistan to work for the family company and then for Cessna.
He became a journalist in 1982 with The Star and then joined The News.
Kaleem Omar was known for his investigative reporting and was also ranked amongst the top 150 English poets of the world and his work was published by Oxford University Press in 1975, under the title Wordfall.
His poems also appear in an anthology titled Pieces of Eight.
The poem that follows is from Wordfall.
Trout
Kaleem Omar
By first light we are at the river’s edge,
Unsnarling tackle.
Hands, with a new day’s life in them,
Choose favourite spoons and pocket sweets