Mimi Khalvati, awarded the King’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2023, has published nine collections with Carcanet Press, including: The Meanest Flower, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2007; Child: New and Selected Poems 1991–2011, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation; and The Weather Wheel, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and a Book of the Year in the Independent. Her most recent collection, Afterwardness, was a 2019 Poetry Book Society Winter Wild Card choice and a Sunday Times Book of the Year; her Collected Poems, published by Carcanet in 2024, was awarded the Jhalak Poetry Prize 2025. Mimi Khalvati is the founder of the Poetry School and has taught creative writing at universities and colleges in the USA and Britain. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of The English Society; other awards include a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors and a major Arts Council Writer’s Award. Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran, and has lived most of her life in London. Photo © Justin Owen
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