This paper will focus on a poetic trend that emerged outside Iran in the aftermath of the 1979 Revolution. It focus on a corpus of poetry produced by a group of exiled Iranian poets who actively took part in the 1978-79 revolution, then turned against it and subsequently left the country as a result of persecution, prosecution, or both. Through a rigorous examination of archival materials, the paper shares new insights on ways in which the experience of banishment from the homeland in the wake of political authoritarianism initiated poignant transregional and transnational literary conversations in the literary output of the exiled Iranian literati of the 1980s and played a transformative role in expanding the poetic imagination and introducing new qualities to the works of a number of leading exiled poets the 1980s.