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Mimi Khalvati

Mimi Khalvati

Mimi Khalvati speaks with John Greening about Persian origins, abstraction and constrained forms and co-founding the Poetry School. Mimi Khalvati speaks with John Greening about losing her Persian origins in an Isle of Wight boarding school, the creative benefits of constrained poetic forms, the neglected role of abstraction in English poetry and why she co-founded the Poetry School.


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