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Poems

by Azita Ghahreman
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Book cover type: Misc
  • ISBN13: 9780956057686
  • Binding: Misc
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: The Poetry Translation Centre
  • Publisher Imprint: The Poetry Translation Centre
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 32
  • Original Price: GBP 4.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 52 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

Dooley, Maura: -

Maura Dooley has published several collections of poetry, most recently Life Under Water (Bloodaxe Books 2008) and edited anthologies of verse and essays, amongst them The Honey Gatherers: Love Poems (Bloodaxe Books 2003) and How Novelists Work (Seren Books 2000).

She has worked with new writers all her working life for, amongst others, the Arvon Foundation, Performing Arts Labs, the South Bank Centre, Jim Henson Film and currently for Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has twice been short-listed for the T S Eliot Prize and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

With Elhum Shakerifar, Maura has translated the Iranian poet, Azita Ghahreman for the PTC's Persian Poets' Tour.

Ghahreman, Azita: -

Azita Ghahreman, was born in Mashhad in 1962. One of Iran's leading poets, she has lived in Sweden since 2006. She is a member of the South Sweden Writers' Union.

She has published five collections of poetry: Eve's Songs (1991), Sculptures of Autumn (1995), Forgetfulness is a Simple Ritual (2002), The Suburb of Crows (2008), (a collection reflecting on her exile in Sweden that was published in both Swedish and Farsi), and Under Hypnosis in Dr Caligari's Cabinet (2012).

Her poems directly address questions of female desire and challenge the accepted position of women.

A collection of Azita's work was published in Swedish in 2009 alongside the work of Sohrab Rahimi and Christine Carlson. She has also translated a collection of poems by the American poet and cartoonist, Shel Silverstein, into Farsi, The Place Where the Sidewalk Ends (2000). And she has edited three volumes of poems by poets from Khorasan, the eastern province of Iran that borders Afghanistan and which has a rich and distinctive history.

Azita's poems have been translated into German, Dutch, Arabic, Chinese, Swedish, French and English.

Azita Ghahreman was one of the poets who took part in the PTC's Persian Poets' Tour. Her poetry is translated by Maura Dooley and Elhum Shakerifar.

Shakerifar, Elhum: -

Elhum Shakerifar is writer whose work revolves around multiplicity of experience, the languages in-between, opacity and erasure. She also translates, most recently PEN Award winning, Warwick Prize nominated Negative of a Group Photograh by Azita Ghahreman, translated alongside poet Maura Dooley (Bloodaxe Books, 2018).

Elhum is currently one of Writerz & Scribez' inaugural poetry 'Griots'. Elhum is also a BAFTA-nominated producer and curator working through her London-based company Hakawati, meaning 'storyteller' in Arabic.

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