The Gathering of Solitude
Forty-two poems written between Tehran and the island — on exile, womanhood, the cities that taught the body how to disappear, and the slow work of finding a voice again.
This is not a book meant to comfort. It is a book meant to be entered.
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Here, loneliness is not an emotion but a landscape.
About the book
The Gathering of Solitude is the English edition of Nasrina Rezaei’s Persian collection (Sadeh, 2025). The poems were written across different years and cities, yet each returns to a single center: the inner geography of a woman walking through silence, depth and self-recognition. Tehran under smoke and quarantine, the suitcase and the runway, a mother’s photograph, an island in the Mediterranean — the book moves from the voice that failed to the crossing of the dark.
From the author’s note:
This collection was written across different years and cities, yet each poem returns to a single center— the inner geography of a woman walking through silence, depth, and self-recognition.
The book is dedicated “for the women I have been, and the women I am becoming,” and, like each of her books, it ends with a poem that carries her name.
Details
| Author | Nasrina Rezaei · نسرینا رضایی |
| Genre | Poetry — contemporary, Iranian / Persian literature in English |
| Poems | 42, in five parts, written 2016–2025 |
| Language | English (Persian original: Sadeh, 2025) |
| Formats | Paperback, 6 × 9 in, 102 pages · Kindle e-book |
| ASIN | Paperback B0GQNY6R4W · Kindle B0GQN9F12T |
| Published | 2026, independently, through Amazon KDP |
| Themes | exile and migration · loneliness and solitude · womanhood · memory · love · Tehran |
Contents
I · Where the Voice Failed
- A Room for Falling Apart
- The Lamp in Your Window
- Silence Cannot Be Seen in the Mirror
- The City’s Bones
- The Calendar’s Shout
- The Fear in My Bones
- In the Name of the Soldier
- The Marsh of Your Absence
- From Eternity to You
II · The House Missing from the Map
- Autumn
- The City of Silence
- First Collision
- The Waking Anxiety
- Something of You
- The Sea
- Red Light
- The Geography of Your Absence
III · The Geography of No Return
- The City I Once Loved
- Migrant
- The Geography of Force
- The New Mission of Pain
- Tehran’s Breathlessness
- Love
- White Mask
- Doll
- The Wishing Star
IV · Woman, the Burned Memory of the World
- The Sacred Mourning
- Where Is Home?
- Heir of Sorrow
- My City
- Relief
- I Could Have Loved You
- The New Century
- Thirty
- Frida
- The Anthem of the Cypress
V · Crossing the Dark
- Quarantine in Tehran
- 7 A.M.
- The Refuge of Wishes
- Your Eyes
- Homeland
- Nasrina (II)
Read a few poems
- MigrantExile held us gently— a kind midwife for our tears. And still, a thousand infinities later, I miss my mother.
- LoveHold me— so tightly that the first and last kiss of the condemned loses its meaning. Someone dances inside my chest. My…
- My CityTehran has been taken hostage so we forget. But how can I reclaim these years of sorrow from my memory?
Questions
What is The Gathering of Solitude about?
It is a collection of 42 poems written between 2016 and 2025, between Tehran and the island of Cyprus. The poems move through exile and migration, loneliness, womanhood, memory, love and the city of Tehran. The book has five parts: Where the Voice Failed; The House Missing from the Map; The Geography of No Return; Woman, the Burned Memory of the World; Crossing the Dark.
Who wrote The Gathering of Solitude?
Nasrina Rezaei (Persian: نسرینا رضایی), an Iranian poet and writer born in Tehran in 1991 who lives in Cyprus. More about the author.
Is it a translation from Persian?
Yes. It is the English edition of her Persian poetry collection of the same name, published by Sadeh in 2025.
In which formats is the book available?
As a 6 × 9 inch paperback (102 pages) and as a Kindle e-book, both on Amazon.
Where can I buy it?
On Amazon worldwide. The buttons on this site open the Amazon store of your country: the paperback is sold on Amazon US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Canada, Australia and Japan, and the Kindle edition on the same stores (except Poland and Sweden) and Amazon India.
Who is this book for?
For readers of contemporary poetry about exile, migration, womanhood and the inner life; for readers of Iranian and Persian literature in English; and for anyone who has carried a homeland in a suitcase.
Can I read some of the poems first?
Yes. A few poems from the book, such as Migrant, are on this site, and Amazon’s “Look Inside” shows the first pages.