Mimi Khalvati was born in Iran and grew up on the Isle of Wight. She trained at Drama Centre London and worked as an actor and director in Iran and the UK. Her pamphlet, Persian Miniatures (Smith/Doorstop 1990) was a winner of the Poetry Business competition 1989. Her Carcanet collections include In White Ink (1991), Mirrorwork (1995), for which she received an Arts Council of England Writer’s Award, and Entries on Light (1997). Her Selected Poems was published in 2000 and her collection, The Chine, in 2002. The Meanest Flower (Carcanet 2007) is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Mimi is the founder of The Poetry School and co-editor of the School's anthologies of new writing, Tying the Song (2000) and Entering the Tapestry (2003), published by Enitharmon Press. She also edited Poetry to Calm Your Soul (MQP 2005).
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from Entries on Light

And in the sea's blackness sank
wreckage of the day
its faces, voices, stops and starts
while to the surface rose
lights, lapping of waves
squawks of invisible birds
we heard as apertures
in a low dark sky –
the glittering crust that to an eye
seeing for the first time
evidence of man's night on earth
might be as intricate, luminous
as space to ours and wondrous
in its buoyancy, littoral
between depths and heights, electric
on its charts of glass
as peace might be
putting out without sound or sail.

Mimi Khalvati
in collection Entries on Light, Carcanet, 1997
ISBN 1 85754 329 7