Collected Poems by Mimi Khalvati Joseph Coelho As tensions rise at home

As tensions rise at home and across the nation

invasive species invoke spectres

’ – Andrew Miller

and I think this is her great strength

Collected Poems by Mimi Khalvati Joseph Coelho As tensions rise at homeKing'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