Markings Publishing proudly presented their fourth title, ‘The Cave-The Worlds, Volume I’ by poet Emad S. Rahim at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi. Following the successful launches of a diverse portfolio of previous titles like ‘Mrs Azra Syed’s Pakistan Cooking’ and ‘Dou Rukh’ by Arif Mahmood and Tapu Javeri, ‘The Cave’ is Markings Publishing’s first poetry title. The launch was opened with an introduction to the evening by Tuba Arshad, Creative Manager at Markings where she invited poet Emad Rahim to speak about this work. This was followed by a theatrical rendition of excerpts from the poetry book entitled ‘Within the Cave’, directed by Saba Sayeed and featuring Rahat Kazmi, Khalid Ahmed, Aamir Qureshi, Joshinder Chaggar, Faraz Lodhi and Emad himself, with musical accompaniment by Alan Simon and Ahsan Shabbir. Also in attendance were Arshad Mahmud, Sahira Kazmi, Khalid Malik, fashion designers Adnan Pardesy, Maheen Karim, Sanam Chaudhry and Warda, model Rabia Chaudhry and poet Faraz Maqsood Hamidi. The genesis of ‘The Cave’ occurred in a coffeehouse after Emad graduated from college in 2004, where he developed a handful of lines into a book-length narrative poem split into three volumes, entitled ‘The Worlds’. In the first volume, ‘The Cave’, the reader follows the narrator, a wealthy young merchant named Azle’ad al-‘Ezariya, into a coffeehouse in Istanbul, where he seeks to escape his troubles by immersing himself in others’ tales. Public Relations for the event were handled by Lotus.
