TEHRAN -- The Iranian poet and translator Alireza Abiz is writing a book in English about Persian forms of short poetry.
“I have tried to introduce Persian forms of short poetry through translating some examples of these works in English over the past few years,” he told the Persian service of ISNA on Tuesday.
The book entitled “The Persian Forms of Short Poetry” will also contain English translations of a selection of short poems by several Iranian poets.
Abiz, a Ph.D. student in Creative Writing (poetry) at the Newcastle University, has previously translated poems by by Faryad Shiri, Rasul Yunan and Mansur Momeni in a collection.
Scottish poet W. N. Herbert has edited the collection, which will be published in 2014, he said.
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