Negative of a Group Photograph by Azita Ghahreman, trans. by Maura Dooley & Elhum Shakerifar Ugly Duckling Presse betraying a growing awareness of

betraying a growing awareness of mortality and the many losses that come with age

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

and mend the broken home of our own planet while we still have time

Rod Mengham’s new offering comprises two complementary halves

Negative of a Group Photograph by Azita Ghahreman, trans. by Maura Dooley & Elhum Shakerifar Ugly Duckling Presse betraying a growing awareness ofNegative 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