Street on the Hill is a book of poems mostly about middle-class lives in a small city. There are several poems about childhood observations, memories and concealments.

Then come men who run sweetshops in faded black ties, nuns who teach in convent schools, pregnant women and knife-grinders, as well as sports goods stores, beauty parlours, Chinese restaurants, and quiet bedrooms on winter afternoons.

The later poems are about flight from the “museum of the past”. These poems celebrate travel, love and the life of the senses.

"There are two kinds of poets. The first who craft their poems so well that when you finish the poem you look back and say – what a tremendous, haunting poem that was. But if you pick out a stanza from that poem [you say]…fair enough but nothing great. There are the other kinds who play with language and you’ll have something scintillating in every second line, something being put forward differently. Anjum Hasan is both." Keki Daruwalla


Sahitya Akademi | 2007, 2012 | 64 pages

Gata På Toppen Av En Ås | 2011 | Margbok | translated into Norwegian by Lene Westerås