House Arrest by Hasan Alizadeh trans. Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould Dean Atta Curated by poet-runners Ben Wilkinson

Curated by poet-runners Ben Wilkinson

John Mills

Living by Troubled Waters is innovative

infatuation and obsession

House Arrest by Hasan Alizadeh trans. Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould Dean Atta Curated by poet-runners Ben WilkinsonNotwithstanding his spare output, with only two volumes of poetry Diary of House Arrest (Ruznama ye tabid, 2003) and Blue Bicycle (Ducharkha yi b, 2015) to his name, Iranian poet Hasan Alizadeh has left a poetic signature on modern Persian poetry, distinguished by lyricism and colloquialism. In Alizadehs poems, a labyrinthine memory, structured by the intricate architecture of old Iranian bazaars and mosques, continually revises itself in spontaneous