<i>Six Vowels and Twenty Three Consonants</i>: On Translating an Anthology of Persian Poetry

Ali Alizadeh is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Monash University where he is also the director of the Centre for Australian and Postcolonial Writing. His forthcoming book is a work of fiction titled Transactions (University of Queensland Press 2013). His volumes of translations include, with John Kinsella, Six Vowels and Twenty Three Consonants: An Anthology of Persian Poetry from Rudaki to Langroodi (Arc Publishing 2012) and, with Kenneth Avery, Fifty Poems of Attar (re.press, 2007).