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Mimi Khalvati (born 28 April ) is an Iranian-born British poet. She is the recipient of the King's Gold Medal for Poetry for , awarded for "her outstanding talent and ability to draw on diverse cultural traditions – Iranian, English and American – to enrich British poetry". Mimi khalvati poems
Founder of The Poetry School and former Poet in Residence at the Royal Mail, Khalvati is a fellow at the Royal Society of Literature and a freelance instructor of creative writing. Mimi Khalvati - Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran on April 28, , and raised on the Isle of Wight.
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Mimi is the founder of The Poetry School and has co-edited its anthologies of new writing, Tying the Song (), Entering the Tapestry () and I Am Twenty People! (), published by Enitharmon Press. THE POET – Interview with Mimi Khalvati -
Mimi Khalvati (b. , Tehran) spent much of her childhood at boarding school on the Isle of Wight, only returning to Iran at seventeen. She has been resident in the UK since the age of twenty-five, where she has published seven collections of poetry, winning an Arts Council Writers’ Award for Mirrorwork, one children’s book, and edited. Mimi Khalvati (born 28 April 1944) is an. SIDELIGHTS: Iranian-born British author Mimi Khalvati is probably best known for her poetry; her works include Entries on Light, a book-length poem about how light affects the way one sees the world, and The Chine, in which Khalvati explores her childhood on the Isle of Wight. Khalvati did not begin writing poems until later in her career.
Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran on April 28, 1944, and raised on the Isle of Wight. Mimi is the founder of The Poetry School and has co-edited its anthologies of new writing, Tying the Song (2000), Entering the Tapestry (2003) and I Am Twenty People! (2007), published by Enitharmon Press.
Biography. Mimi Khalvati (b. 1944, Tehran) spent much of her childhood at boarding school on the Isle of Wight, only returning to Iran at seventeen. She has been resident in the UK since the age of twenty-five, where she has published seven collections of poetry, winning an Arts Council Writers’ Award for Mirrorwork, one children’s book, and edited.
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Mimi Khalvati is a poet and creative-writing tutor. She was born in Tehran, Iran. At the age of six, she was sent to boarding school on the Isle of Wight where she spent her childhood.
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Mimi Khalvati's poetry takes as its material a life spent between two countries: Iran and England. She is one of a growing number of poets writing in English for whom the English language is more than a poetic medium; it is also an adopted mother tongue. About Mimi Khalvati - Academy of American Poets
Mimi Khalvati’s publisher, Carcanet Mimi Khalvati reading a selection of her poems at the Poetry Archive The Poetry School was founded by Mimi Khalvati, Jane Duran and Pascale Petit in , and runs a wide variety of poetry courses for adults. Read about Mimi Khalvati’s experience at the Royal Mail, during the Poetry Society’s Poetry. Mimi Khalvati
About this poem: "I wrote this poem as an elegy for my mother who died suddenly at the age of 92, after a night and a day in hospital. Living in England, I had been separated from her since childhood, but after the Iranian revolution my mother left Iran and settled in London, where we became very close.