Basir Sultan Kazmi is a poet in the ghazal tradition of his illustrious father Nasir Kazmi (late). He

studied/taught English Literature at the Government College Lahore. He edited Ravi (1974) and was

the office bearer of the college literary and dramatic societies. He did his M.Ed (1991) and M.Phil

(2000) from the University of Manchester and PGCE in English (1995). He currently teaches in

Manchester. He also worked for BBC’s Asian programme (19991-92) and has been conducting

poetry/drama 

workshops all over the UK. He has an Urdu poetry collection Moj-e-Khayal (1997) and translations of

ghazals in A Little Bridge (1997), Generations of Ghazals (2003) and in several magazines and

anthologies. His Urdu play Bisaatwas published in 1987 and its translation The Chess Board in 1997.

He won the North West Playwrights Workshop Award in 1992. His plays have been performed in

northern theatres. He has recited his poetry in several cities of Europe, Pakistan and the USA.