Collected Poems by Mimi Khalvati Mary Oliver It is a gothic tale

It is a gothic tale of history biting back

and American poets

Taken together they affirm her belief that 'poetry is the music of being human'

So when you next meet a tiger face to face

‘He is a magnificent

Collected Poems by Mimi Khalvati Mary Oliver It is a gothic taleKing'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