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Collected Poems: Mimi Khalvati

  • ISBN-13: 9781800173330
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Mimi Khalvati
  • Price: AUD $44.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 25/09/2024
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 244 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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This Collected Poems spans Mimi Khalvati's nine collections and includes previously uncollected poems.
Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran, and sent to boarding school on the Isle of Wight at the age of six. She has lived most of her life in London. She has published nine collections with Carcanet Press, including The Meanest Flower, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2007, Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation, and The Weather Wheel, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and a book of the year in The Independent. She has held fellowships at the International Writing Program in Iowa, the American School in London and at the Royal Literary Fund, and her awards include a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors and a major Arts Council Writer's Award. She is the founder of the Poetry School and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of The English Society.
• Previous collection Afterwardness was a PBS Wild Card and a Sunday Times Book of the Year • This Collected Poems spans her nine collections and includes previously uncollected poems • Her poetry resists the stereotype of contemporary cultural diversity, insisting on a complete belonging to the culture that shaped her imagination and language • A preface explores the cultural pressures her poetry resists • Khalvati is the celebrated founder of The Poetry School (London) and multi-prize winner for her poetry
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