Negative of a Group Photograph by Azita Ghahreman, trans. by Maura Dooley & Elhum Shakerifar Ugly Duckling Presse ’ – Sasha Dugdale

’ – Sasha Dugdale

but the work's true force comes from what they share – the patient returning to the water

Rod Mengham’s new offering comprises two complementary halves

along with the poems (some of them fragments)

Negative of a Group Photograph by Azita Ghahreman, trans. by Maura Dooley & Elhum Shakerifar Ugly Duckling Presse ’ – Sasha DugdaleNegative 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 Ghahremans experience: from her