Farah Afshari

Farah Afshari was born in Iran and began writing poetry from a very early age. As a young person, she experienced a revolution and a war as two major life events when living in Iran. These political and social upheavals greatly affected her views and opinion of the world around her and are the subjects of majority of poems in this book. Her poems have appeared in a considerable number of online social and literary journals. Afshari has published two poetry books, one in English (All Night Long) and another in Farsi (تمام شب). She lives in London with her family.

All Night Long is a collection of poems, some written over 30 years ago and some are very recent. The older poems are relevant to the author's experience of having lived as a young person in Iran with political and social unrest over revolution and post revolution years. The younger poems are more relevant to her current views of life and relationship with the people around her. The title of the book is from the poem she wrote nearly 30 years ago. Today, she still feels as strongly about the words in this poem as she did when she wrote it and that is the reason she chose it as the title for this book.

Each poem tells a story of Afshari growing up as a human being and her personal journey through time and places as she experienced many major changes around her. The major theme is selflessness of individuals who sacrificed their being to bring about freedom for others, as well as interpretation of life in general.

Afshari's poems come face to face with the readers' feelings and experience of daily life in an intimate way. While political, social and individual in nature, the poems are rather international and relevant to everyone in the world who can make a connection to them.

تمام شب is the collection of seventy eight poems written over 30 years. The book is in Farsi and majority are the Farsi version of poems in All Night Long.