Ghazalnāma

The ghazal for Maaz Bin Bilal becomes a way to love as well as to remember, to dialogue as well as to critique, to mourn as well as to memorialize. It aspires to the condition of statement and song, seeking to combine a love of rhetorical flourish with tender lyricism, political assertion with whimsy, ... -- Arundhathi Subramaniam

'Let poetry come, ' declares Maaz confidently in his opening ghazal, and come it does, in English and from Urdu, in such poems as 'Biryani in Belfast', destined to become a cult classic...-- Gabriel Rosenstock