everything I’ve done is a tribute to his overshadowing presence/absence.
He chose my name Tahereh after an earlier namesake who was the first Persian woman suffragette who in 1848 unveiled her face before a congregation of men and declared the dawn of women’s physical and spiritual emancipation. She was sentenced to death by strangulation for this act and declared to her executioners “You can destroy me as soon as you like, but you cannot stop the emancipation of women.”
Her words have been the compass and rudder in
all my endeavours.
Name : Tahereh Zoghi
Place of birth : Tehran, Iran
Lived in : Iran | Cyprus| England
A favourite book: The Sorrows of Young
Werther
The Journey : After a convoluted trail
[and many dragons encountered en route] I finally arrived in England on the first day of Spring, 21st March 1970, during which time...
•I obtained a BA Hons in English Lit. and European Cultural History from the Open University
•Meanwhile worked at Reading University as PA/senior secretary [Physics Dept]
•Was writing, writing, writing.........
•Completed a Creative Writing course and joined the Reading Writers in 1987
•A poem of mine called Time was published in their 2005 Anthology
•Two more poems The Sky Dark or Blue and The Scar have been published in their 2011 Anthology
• I continue to plunder my cross-cultural heritage in my writings: poetry, short stories, a memoir.... you could say my approach combines an ingrained philosophical strain with a modern twist.
My first collection of poems, Storms of the Heart, was published in 2013 by Silent Impressions. The second collection, The Shadowkeeper, came out in June 2015. Retellings of four classical Persian fairy tales, and my autobiography {involving ten years of extensive research - whew} are also nearing completion.
Some Favourite Lines...
People see things as they are
and wonder ‘Why’?
I dream of things as they never
were, and ask ‘Why not’?
George B Shaw
A Few Favourite Books
1.Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C G Jung
2.Dubliners by James Joyce
3.Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
4.Everything by William Golding
5.Personal Values in the Modern World by M
C Jeffreys
6.Everything by George Orwell
7.Gorgias by Plato
8.Everything by Hafiz, Saa’di, and Omar Khayyam
Some Favourite Links
http://readingwriters.wordpress.com/
“If you want your Father’s inheritance
then acquire his knowledge,
Since these material possessions of his
can be spent in one day.”
The Rose Garden Saa’di
Translation The Octagon Press Ltd
A Persian poet has compared
the Universe to an old
manuscript of which the first
and last pages have been lost.
It is no longer possible to say
how the book began, nor do we
know how it is likely to end.
A History of Philosphy, Eastern & Western
by Radhakrishnan
For sweetest things turn
sourest by their deeds:
Lilies that fester smell
far worse than weeds
Shakespeare Sonnet 94
Storms of the Heart is available HERE! & The Shadowkeeper is available HERE!