Empyrean Realms

This unique collection of poems explores religion, mysticism, and love, spiritual transcendence and the quest for the divine, devotional and theological themes, and traditional love poetry, in a lyrical and accessible style and grounded in literary tradition.

Taimur Awan was born in Karachi, Pakistan. He was educated at Karachi Grammar School and attended boarding schools in England, developing a love of reading and writing poetry at the age of 16. He spent many years living in Toronto, Canada and gained a passion for writing novels before deciding poetry was his true vocation. Inspired by the great poets of the past, he discovered the therapeutic value of poetry.