Photograph of Shirin Razavian, member of the Iranian Centre in Exile. Razavan is a Tehran-born British poet whose work has featured in Poetry London, the Index on Censorship, Exiled Writers Ink magazine, Agenda poetry journal, and Persian Book Review among others. She has published five Farsi and English poetry collections in the UK, the latest of which was titled Which Shade of Blue, featuring Razavin’s original works as well as their translations by the poet and translator of Russian literature, Robert Chandler.