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Omer Tarin | |
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| Born | 1967 |
| Occupation | Poet, writer |
Omer Tarin (born 1967), also spelled Omar Tarin [1] , is a Pakistani poet.
Tarin was born in Peshawar in North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). [2] :vi He was educated at the Burn Hall School (now Army Burn Hall College), Abbottabad and the Aitchison College, Pakistan, prior to graduating from the University of the Punjab, Lahore. [3] He has published five volumes of poetry in English, including A Sad Piper (1994), as well as poems published elsewhere later. [4] From 2008 to 2015 he ran an education institute in Northern Pakistan. [5]
Omer Tarin's poetry is deeply influenced by the mystic tradition of the Sufi and Bhakti poets [6] [7] [8] [9] Tarin has also an interest in and Japanese Culture and haiku and Buddhism. [10] [11] One of Tarin's early poetic mentors was Taufiq Rafat, one of the pioneers of English poetry in Pakistan/South Asia, [12] and a scholar of Punjabi Sufic poetry. [13] Tariq Rahman has commented on Rafat's influence on Tarin and has said that "a certain force of vitality" and creative "intensity" is to be found in Tarin's writings. [14]
According to some critics Tarin's poetic style is marked by 'evocative imagery' [15] and a 'musical quality' [16] .
Tarin's publications include:
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