Collected Poems [electronic resource]
Mimi Khalvati2024
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King's Gold Medal for PoetryMimi Khalvati, one of our best-loved poets, was born
in Tehran, Iran, and sent away to boarding school on the Isle of Wight at the
age of six, only returning to her family in Iran when she was seventeen. The
loss of her native country, culture and mother tongue formed the bedrock of her
adoptive love of the English language and its lyric tradition. 'But,' she says,
'whether drawing on my few memories of Iran, my long years in London and
travelling in the Mediterranean, or on that central void always facing me, I
have celebrated the richness of a life that can be lived without a clear sense
of heritage, family history or personal biography.'That wealth is reflected in
the wide variety of style, tone and architecture in her Carcanet poetry
collections over thirty-three years – free and metrical verse, ranging from
short, fixed forms to extended lyrical sequences, from ghazals to the heroic
corona or book-length series of sonnets. 'I hope', she writ...
Main title:
Collected Poems [electronic resource] / Mimi Khalvati
Author:
Mimi Khalvati, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Carcanet Poetry, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (624 pages)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781800173347
Language:
English
BRN:
524751
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