He gave the keynote speeches at the 12th International Urdu Conference in Karachi, in December 2019, at the 11th
Karachi Literature Festival in March 2020, at the 8th Faisalabad Literary Festival in November 2021 and at the 7th Ayaz Melo in Hyderabad, in December 2021.
Critical appreciation Leading academic scholar, language historian and author Dr.
Tariq Rahman writes, “…Harris Khalique is a major Pakistani poet in English. He uses condensed imagery and laconic, simple and highly evocative words to convey his meaning.” Literary critic, linguist and scholar
Fateh Mohammad Malik says, “Harris Khalique stands out amongst his generation of poets. He is the true progressive voice of our times who inspires us to stand for the poor and weak, not by sloganeering in verse but by using aesthetically powerful and contemporary poetic idiom". Poet and essayist Omar Perez (Son of Ernesto Che Guevara) writes, “Harris Khalique explores with self contained mastery, the contrasts between official and untold history." Distinguished scholar-in-residence, St Michael’s College, Vermont, Kristin Dykstra writes, “ His [Khalique's] meditations refract violence, each abstracting human need from a detailed portrait of sorrow.” Speaking of his Urdu poems, poet
Zehra Nigah said, “Khalique’s poetry has image-making, wonderment, history and characterisation. It is difficult to include all these elements in a nazm (poem).” Author, critic and professor of Urdu literature, Dr
Nasir Abbas Nayyar writes, “Khalique’s poems afford a central place to those things, people and occurrences whose existence is either erased, or pushed to the margins, or put in constant danger by the forces of the bazaar.”
Poetry collections • ''Hairaa'n Sar-i-Bazaar'' (Urdu, 2021). •
No Fortunes to Tell (English, 2019). •
Melay Mein (Urdu, 2012). •
Ishq Ki Taqveem Mein (Urdu, 2006). •
Between you and your love (English, 2004, Revised and Expanded, 2012) •
Purani Numaish (Urdu, 2001) •
Saray Kaam Zaroori Thay (Urdu, 1997). •
Divan (English, 1998) •
If wishes were horses (English, 1996) •
Aaj Jab Hui Baarish (Urdu, 1991)
Essay collection •
Crimson Papers: Reflections on Struggle, Suffering and Creativity in Pakistan (English, 2017).
Co-edited volume of essays •
Pakistan: Here and Now (English, 2021).
Creative non-fiction •
Unfinished Histories (co-written, English, 2002).
Monographs •
The Latent Transformation: Challenges, Resilience and Successes of Pakistani Women (2011) •
Pakistan Mein Syasi Tabdeeli Ki Simt (Co-written, Urdu, 2007) •
Pakistan: The Question of Identity (2003)
Anthologies where work appeared •
Windows on the World – 50 writers, 50 views. Penguin US, 2014. •
Look at the city from here. Oxford University Press, 2010. •
Pakistani Urdu Verse. Oxford University Press, 2010. •
Language for a New Century. W.W. Norton and Co., 2008. •
The Poetry of Men’s Lives, The University of Georgia Press. 2004. •
Dragonfly in the Sun – 50 years of Pakistani writing in English. Oxford University Press, 1997. •
Best Asian Poetry 2021-2022, Kitaab, 2022. • ''Azadi Magro'n Punjabi Nazm'', Pakistan Punjabi Adabi Board, 2011. ==References==