
The Meanest Flower
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'Khalvati writes exquisitely nuanced lyrics of love and loss, which draw on childhood, motherhood and the natural world. These [The Meanest Flower] are tender poems in the English Romantic tradition.'No. 3 in 'The Ten Best New poetry collections' - Independent, 2007 'Mimi Khalvati is one of the most poignant and graceful poets writing in England currently. The Meanest Flower speaks often of grief and loss but also of great pleasure in the world, in gardens, in loves, in other people. Under the lyricism there is an iron control that achieves its grace through subtlety. There reader is aware one is in the presence of a mind, a heart and an ear that has been schooled in depth, that finds it as naturally as do the flowers of the title.'
George Szirtes 'Khalvati's writing draws on diverse worlds and poetic traditions, and enriches the dominant culture of British poetry...Intricate, sensuous and vulnerable...Mimi Khalvati's work will endure.'
Moniza Alvi, Poetry Wales 'A lovely book, so accomplished, various, comprehensive and abundant. The poems are quick and touching, joyfully and sorrowfully open to the phenomena of the real world, they say what it feels like being human, the good and the ill of it, with passion, tact and lightness.'
David Constantine This open and generous readiness to engage with all realities and see their worth gives Khalvati her power... graceful accomplishment is always in the service of a fundamental seriousness.
Bernard O'Donoghue, Poetry London
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- I The Meanest Flower
- The Meanest Flower
- Ghazal: It's Heartache
- Ghazal: Lilies of the Valley
- Ghazal: The Candles of the Chestnut Trees
- Ghazal
- Ghazal: To Hold Me
- Ghazal: Of Ghazals
- II The Mediterranean of the Mind
- The Mediterranean of the Mind
- The Middle Tone
- Al Fresco
- Scorpion-grass
- Water Blinks
- The Valley
- Overblown Roses
- Come Close
- Soapstone Creek
- Soapstone Retreat
- On a Line from Forough Farrokhzad
- III Impending Whiteness
- Impending Whiteness
- Amy's Horse
- The Year of the Dish
- Motherhood
- The Robin and the Eggcup
- Song for Springfield Park
- On Lines from Paul Gauguin
- Magpies
- Ghazal: The Servant
- Ghazal: The Children
- Ghazal: My Son
- Signal
- Sundays
- Tintinnabuli
- Notes and Dedications
- About the Author
- Also by Mimi Khalvati from Carcanet Press
- Copyright
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