Poetry Translation Centre

Mimi Khalvati

Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran 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 six collections of poetry with Carcanet Press and her most recent book, The Meanest Flower, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, a Financial Times Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Her work has been translated into nine languages and she received a Cholmondeley Award in 2006. Mimi is the founder of The Poetry School and has co-edited its three anthologies of new writing published by Enitharmon Press.

Poems translated by Mimi Khalvati

• The Letter
• Birds