Danial Tareer

“This (his) poetry has neither corroborated nor conformed any---has just aimed at expressing its own self”, comments Dr Ehsaan Akbar on Aadhi Aatma.

Danial Tareer (Persian: دانیال طریر) (born on 24 February 1980 in Baluchistan, Pakistan) is a poet in the world of Urdu lyrical poetry. Danial Tareer hails from a literary family of Urdu and Pashtu. Saeed Gohar, his father, was a celebrated poet, researcher and critic of Urdu and Pashtu literature.

Art and Style

Danial started his poetic career in the later half of the last decade of 20th century and very soon got recognized in major literary forums of Rawalpindi and Islamabad where he was earlier given a degree of disapproval by the orthodox critics for being highly non conformist in his style, diction and thought. But his consistent commitment and efforts with his art won him a niche in all sectors of Urdu Poetry. He has an excellent poetic perspective of looking into the common place things with an entirely novel angle that sometimes strikes the reader with a blend of awfulness and pleasure. Imagism is his major poetic tool but unlike conventional images of Urdu poetry, he visualizes things as they are and then reconstructs them in accordance with both his personal and outer distortion and suffocation to give an impression of the inverted collage of the real. His poetry might be referred to as having an escapist attitude but this escape becomes positive when we see him aspiring for and designing a peaceful world out of his seemingly Utopian world.

Major Works

His first poetic collection Aadhi Aatma (Half Soul) published in the 2005 and won the best poetic book of the year prize awarded in 2006.^{[citation needed]} Currently serving as a lecturer in Urdu in the University of Balochistan,^[1] Quetta, Tareer is writing a comprehensive research paper on the evolution of Urdu poetry in Baluchistan in series of six books the first of which appeared last year and introduced him as a potential researcher. In addition to this he is working on two other projects as well the first of which is his book of Urdu Free Verse and the second is about the Urdu poetry of Baluchistan in the post 9/11 scenario published in the year 2011.

“The more important factor is this that he started his poetic passage spaced out from classical images and style and there is an abundance of novel and fine couplets in his ghazals which mark the formation of his idiosyncratic poetic aesthetics in a harmony with collective contemporary poetic aesthetics” (Prof. Yusuf Hassan)

References

1. ^ Faculty Page at University of Baluchistan

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