Poetry
Mundair’s first collection of poetry, ‘Lovers, Liars, Conjurers and Thieves’ was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2003 and was widely praised.
Mundair has performed extensively and also worked in collaboration with visual artist/film maker Lotta Petronella on a series of film poems and multi media artist Sean Clark on an interactive installation at the City Gallery, Leicester.
As well as performing in Britain she has also undertaken reading tours of Namibia, India, Italy, Austria and Sweden working with the British Council.
Her most recent book ‘A Choreographer’s Cartography’, was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2007 and is about the transcendence of boundaries and boundary crossing, ranging from migration to language.
Mundair has taught and run workshops and also been poet in residence at various places ranging from Stockholm University, to the Shetland Islands. She has taught Creative Writing at postgraduate level and South Asian Literature at under graduate level at Loughborough University.
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