Negative of a Group Photograph

The Poetry Translation Centre is organising an author tour to launch the book with events at literature festivals and other venues in October and November 2018.

Dual Farsi-English edition of three decades of poems by leading Iranian poet exiled in Sweden since 2006. Launched by the Poetry Translation Centre with a reading tour of UK festivals in October 2018.Negative of a Group Photograph brings together three decades of poems by the leading Iranian poet Azita Ghahreman. Born in Mashhad in 1962 and based in Sweden since 2006, Ghahreman is the author of five highly acclaimed collections. Her poems are lyrical and intimate, addressing themes of loss, exile and female desire, as well as the changing face of her country. Negative of a Group Photograph runs the gamut of Ghahreman’s experience: from her childhood in the Khorasan region of south-eastern Iran to her exile to Sweden, from Iran's book-burning years and the war in Iraq to her unexpected encounters with love. The poems in this illuminating collection are brought to life in English by the poet Maura Dooley, working in collaboration with Elhum Shakerifar. Farsi-English dual language edition co-published with the Poetry Translation Centre.