Pakistan, July 11 -- Some writers stay comfortably within the confines of a single genre, content to explore a familiar territory where each new work echoes the same recognisable patterns. Their creative journeys rarely stray from well-worn paths. But every so often, we encounter someone whose imagination naturally spills over those lines, whose work refuses to fit neatly into any one box. These are the writers who blend different modes into something richer and more complete. When we think of them, we don't see just a poet or just a critic; we see the larger shape of a mind alive to many ways of seeing and saying.

Farah Rizvi is one of those rare figures. She is a poet, a critic, and a humourist, and in all these roles she brings both s...