Rehan Qayoom was born in the UK, he read English Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is employed in many independent literary projects. He has written in English and Urdu for - Ahmadiyya Bulletin, Ancient Heart, The Asian Awam, Atomic Petals, Autumn Leaves, The Beat, Dawn, The Delinquent, Imaani Magazine, Interpoetry, KRITYA, The Lamp & Owl, London Eating, OPS Times, Phoenix New Life Poetry, Poetry Cemetery, The Poet's Letter, Sada Magazine, Sentinel Poetry, TARIQ, Wandering Dog, and his poems have appeared in 2 anthologies (Loving Feelings and Twilight Road).
His book Seeking Betjeman Country was written in commemoration of the hundredth birthday of the Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman, (1906 - 1985). The forthcoming book will be about poets buried in the Magnificent Seven London cemeteries. The Path of Memory is a collection of his obituaries. He lives in London surrounded by books.
I have no doubt that you qualify as an extremely intelligent, very good, wise and talented poet. Your excellent poetry in English and Urdu indicates that God has bestowed a very good understanding of subject to you. I am amazed at how you quote classic poets and use the right verses at the right times and imbue them with your rich and affluent sentiments. I have become an admirer of your poetry.
(Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad - Khalifatul Masih IV).
An obviously sincere poet.
(Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate).
Energetic and interesting.
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