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Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran. She grew up on the Isle of Wight, where she attended boarding school from the age of six, and has lived most of her life in England. She trained at Drama Centre London and has worked as an actor and director in the UK and Iran.

She has published eight collections of poetry with Carcanet Press, including The Weather Wheel, The Meanest Flower, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, a Financial Times Book of the Year, and shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and, most recently, Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her work has been translated into nine languages and she received a Cholmondeley Award in 2006. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Mimi is the founder of The Poetry School and was the Coordinator from 1997–2004. She is a core tutor for the School and has co-edited its three anthologies of new writing published by Enitharmon Press.

She is also a freelance poetry tutor and has worked with arts organisations such as the Arvon Foundation and the South Bank Centre and has taught at universities in the UK, Europe and America.

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Mimi Khalvati

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Books from Mimi Khalvati

The Meanest Flower

The Weather Wheel

Poetry to Calm Your Soul

Child: New and Selected Poems 1991–2011

Saudade: An Anthology of Fado Poetry

The Chine: Poems

Tying the Song

Quartet: The Four Seasons

Selected Poems

In White Ink

Afterwardness

Inside the Brightness of Red

Anvil New Poets

Persian Miniatures.

Mirrorwork

Entering the Tapestry

Poems