Mirrorwork by Mimi Khalvati

Mirrorwork by Mimi Khalvati

Khalvati's second collection of poetry uses the image of Islamic mirror-mosaic. The shorter poems refract one another, the three long sequences act a mirror tryptych - their themes of art, nature, domestic life, memory, east and west draw the other poems together.

Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran, and grew up on the Isle of Wight. She has lived most of her life in London. After training at Drama Centre London, she worked as an actor in the UK and as a director at the Theatre Workshop Tehran and on the fringe in London. She has published nine poetry 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, The Weather Wheel, a PBS Commendation and a book of the year in The Independent, and Afterwardness, a book of the year in The Sunday Times and The Guardian. She was a co-winner of the Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition 1989 and her Very Selected Poems appeared from Smith/Doorstop in 2017. She has been Poet in Residence at the Royal Mail and has held fellowships at the International Writing Program in Iowa as the recipient of the William B. Quarton International Writing Program Scholarship, at the American School in London and at the Royal Literary Fund, City University. She is the founder of The Poetry School and has co-edited its three anthologies of new writing published by Enitharmon Press. Her awards include a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors, a major Arts Council Award and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of The English Society. In 2023 she was awarded the King's Gold Medal for Poetry.

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ISBN 13	9781857541144
ISBN 10	1857541146
Title	Mirrorwork
Author	Mimi Khalvati
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Carcanet Press Ltd
Year published	1995-01-27
Number of pages	108
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