POEMS IN THE SIXTIES Paul Smith. Paul Smith (b. 1945) is an Australian poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets from the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Mu'in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Bulleh Shah, Ibn al-Farid, Abu Nuwas, Shah Latif, Lalla Ded and others, and his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa