External Links

These links take you to pages concerned with ghazals or with poetry. Your suggestions for new links are welcome. In revising this page, I revisited my list of links and found several that have died. If you find dead links, or if you know of relevant links I've missed, please let me know.

• What is a Ghazal? This site presents Abhay Avachat's definition of the Urdu ghazal; The definition is in English, the examples in Urdu.
• Jane and Werner Reichhold advocate and support a variety of forms of poetry at AHA! Poetry, including the ghazal. Both commentary and examples may be found here.
• Site devoted to Rumi and the Mevlevi Order. There is some commentary, along with some translations.
• Ghazalville hosts ghazals and comments on them.
• Wikipedia article on "ghazal." The page asks for help in improving it.
• A Desert Full of Roses, devoted to Ghalib, with commentary and background information in English and the ghazals in transliterated Urdu.
• More on Ghalib. although the texts, again, are in Urdu.
• Gene Doty's collection: Zero: Thirty Ghazals AHA! Books published this collection several years ago. Follow the link and then find the link for "Gene Doty: Zero." These ghazals do not include all the formal apparatus of the Persian/Urdu ghazal, but I do feel they capture the spirit of the ghazal's diunities.