Resources:
The Weather Wheel
The Meanest Flower,
Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011
Mimi Khalvati
Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran. She grew up on the Isle of Wight and has lived most of her life in England.
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.
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.
Biographical details taken from Mimi Khalvati’s website.
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