Mimi Khalvati

Biography

Mimi Khalvati is an Iranian born British poet. She was born in Tehran, Iran in 1944. She grew up on the Isle of Wight and was educated in Switzerland at the University of Neuchâtel, and in London at the Drama Centre and the School of Oriental and African Studies. She then worked as a theatre director in Tehran, translating from English into Farsi and devising new plays, as well as co-founding the Theatre in Exile group. She now lives in Hackney and is a Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths College and a director of the London Poetry School. Carcanet publish her six previous collections, including In White Ink (1991), Mirrorwork (1995) and The Chine (2002).

She is the founder of The Poetry School, running poetry workshops and courses in London, and is co-editor of the School's first two anthologies of new writing: Tying the Song and Entering The Tapestry. She is a tutor at the Arvon Foundation, and has taught creative writing at universities and colleges in the US and England.

Her six collections, all published by Carcanet Press, are In White Ink(1991), Mirrorwork(1995), Entries on Light(1997), Selected Poems(2000), The Chine(2002), and The Meanest Flower(2007).

In White Ink(1991)takes its title from Helene Cixous who claimed that women in the past have written 'in white ink'.

Works

• In White Ink(Carcanet Press,1991)
• Mirrorwork(Carcanet Press,1995)
• Entries on Light(Carcanet Press,1997)
• Selected Poems(Carcanet Press, 2000)
• The Chine(Carcanet Press, 2002)
• The Meanest Flower(Carcanet Press, 2007)

External links

• Poetry School website
• Profile at Poetry Translation Centre, with links to poems, articles, audio and video footage
• Mimi Khalvati official website
• Profile at Poetry Archive
• Second Light profile and poems
• Carcanet interview
• Caranet profile
• "Interview: Labelled a "Persian poet", Mimi Khalvati owes as much to the Isle of Wight as Iran" Independent

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