Poetry


History Biography Poetry 1999 The Goodness of God The Spear of God If you descend Don’t Greet the Night Useless 2000 Escape My Garden Asking for Rain Coy Girl Tumult Prison 2001 Poisoned Needless Desire Defeat Bitter Tales Boundless Void Fly Freely Tough relations If only Raise your head! Mountain – river Human, Stone, Iron 2002 Fiery honour Voiceless Cry Watery Year Your step, my light! Night and the poem A Taste of the Ghazal With Paper and Pen When… With Spring Girls The least colourful Smoke-veined Flower Asleep in the dust 2003 Illusory relations How Curvature Read me My heart didn’t let me 2004 False smile Untidy Herati Women Poets	AfghanWirePoetry AfghanWire is pleased to present the first complete translation of Nadia Anjuman's first volume of poetry - Smoke-Veined Flower. Nadia Anjuman (1980-2005) lived her entire life in Herat and was beginning to receive international acclaim when her life was cut short in December 2005. Just months before, she published Gul-e Dudi ('Smoke-Veined Flower') in Herat. She was due to publish a second volume of poetry at the time of her death. Ahmed Said Haqiqi, president of the Literary CIrcle of Herat, founded in 1920, said that Nadia "was becoming a great Persian poet." AfghanWire hopes to continue its translations of Afghan women's poetry, beginning with Nadia's second volume of poetry. We hope it can act as a cultural complement to our research and media monitoring at AfghanWire.com and further open the diversity and richness of Afghanistan to a wider audience.
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