Daud Kamal (1935-1987) was a professor of English literature in Peshawar University , Pakistan. He was educated at Cambridge University, UK. He started writing poetry in his twenties and become one of the major English language poets of Pakistan. He received three gold medals for his poetry from the Triton College and his poems were recorded for the Library of Congress, Washington DC. USA. ‘Remote Beginnings’ and ‘A Selection of Verse’ ISBN 0 19 577812 X , are his anthologies. He also did translations of the classic Urdu poet Ghalib in English.

A Poem by Daud Kamal

“We all die even those who’ve not yet lived. Two streams, distrustful of each other, meet. Night opening her mouth to take the bite.”