Overview
This collection of selected poems draws on her three Carcanet works: In White Ink, Mirrorwork, and Entries on Light. It provides us with the essential Khalvati, from the ambitiously wrought early formal poems, full of Persian and personal shadows, through to the meditations in the long sequence Entries on Light. She brings into English poetry distinct formal and tonal elements of Persian and Islamic provenance. A mature eroticism marks her poems; also, a feeling for nature in all its varieties.Author Biography
Mimi Khalvati, born in Tehran in 1944, grew up on the Isle of Wight and attended the Drama Centre, London. She has worked as a theatre director, translator, and she co-founded the Theatre in Exile group. She lives in Hackney and is a Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths College, running poetry workshops and courses.
