Poetry Landmarks

Mimi Khalvati at Poetry East

(Event)

Details:

Date: 10 December 2011, 19:30

Entry £7.00

Showcasing the work of well-known contemporary poets, exploring the relationship between poetry and spiritual life. The evening consists in a short led meditation, an interview with the poet, and a reading.

Poetry School Founder, Mimi Khalvati returns to Poetry East to launch her New and Selected Poems (Carcanet 2011). Mimi has published six collections with Carcanet Press. She is also co-editor of the Poetry School’s three anthologies of new writing published by Enitharmon Press. Her most recent collection, The Meanest Flower (Carcanet 2007), was a PBS Recommendation, a Financial Times Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Mimi is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2006, she received a Cholmondeley Award.

Contact Information

email: info@poetryeast.net
website: www.poetryeast.net/News/mimikhalvati-1

venue: Poetry East
address:
Poetry East at the London Buddhist Centre
51 Roman Road
London
E2 0HU
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