IMTIAZ Dharker, born in Pakistan but raised in Glasgow, returns to the city to "headline" celebrations for the tenth anniversary of St Mungo's Mirrorball, the poetry club, after receiving the Queen's Award for Poetry.

A party of poetry, music and song tonight also features other major voices. Here is a sample from Dharker's latest collection, Over the Moon (Bloodaxe Books, £12).

THE CRANES

The cranes bend their necks

as gracefully as Audrey Hepburn

admiring cut diamonds.

They graze at rooftops,

lift this, place that,

a steel column, a sheet of glass.

Then they stand back

and stop, as if astonished

at what they have made,

a bank of windows,

a counting-house, a doll's-house,

a library, a jewel-box.