From a young age he was fascinated by plants
Often there is no static vantage point
In this remarkable first collection
along with editions of Prynne's correspondence with Charles Olson (2017) and Douglas Oliver (2022)
Formed of sixty fifteen-line stanzas
Collected Poems by Mimi Khalvati dedalus press From a young age heKing's Gold Medal for PoetryMimi Khalvati, one of our best loved poets, was born in Tehran, Iran, and sent away to boarding school on the Isle of Wight at the age of six, only returning to her family in Iran when she was seventeen. The loss of her native country, culture and mother tongue formed the bedrock of her adoptive love of the English language and its lyric tradition. 'But,' she says, 'whether drawing on my few memories of Iran, my long years