Memories Remaining and Other Poems of Pakistan is an anthology of verse written by John G.R. Proctor and selected from the work of some of Pakistan’s foremost poets writing .in English, including Adrian A. Hussain, Bushra Naqi, Kaleem Omar, M. Athar Tahir, Muzaffar A. Ghaffaar and Salman T arik Kureshi.The poems amiably, robustly and succinctly, provide descriptions and glimpses of the beauty and serenity of Pakistan and incidents in the lives of people in Pakistan.The people and landscapes are recognisably familiar and the poems will appeal to Pakistanis and to visitors to Pakistan. This volume will encourage readers to reflect upon their own cherished and contemplative memories and on their perceptions of their own beloved Pakistan.
John G.R. Proctor is from England and lives with his tamily in Lahore, Pakistan, where he is an academic director of a national and international private schools’ organisation. He has masters’ degrees from the University of London in studies in education pertaining to developing countries and in Oriental and African History. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain. John G .R. Proctor is the editor of Village Schools – A History of Rural Elementary Education from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century in Prose and Verse (Oxford University Press, 2005) and of Old Verse for Modern Kids (Oxford University Press, 2006).
