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Selected Bibliography

1: POETRY COLLECTIONS

In White Ink, Manchester: Carcanet, 1991

Mirrorwork, Manchester: Carcanet, 1995

Entries on Light, Manchester: Carcanet, 1997

Selected Poems, Manchester: Carcanet, 2000

The Chine, Manchester: Carcanet, 2002

The Meanest Flower, Manchester: Carcanet, 2007

Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011, Manchester: Carcanet, 2011

The Weather Wheel, Manchester: Carcanet, 2014

2: OTHER BOOKS

I Know a Place (illustrated by Beverlie Manson), London: Dent’s Children’s Books,1985. (Dutch edn. 1986)

Plant Care: A Festschrift for Mimi Khalvati  (ed. E.A.Markham), Sheffield & Paris: Linda Lee Books, 2004

The Poet in the Wall, tr. Lidia Vianu, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2007

3: PAMPHLETS

Persian Miniatures/A Belfast Kiss (with David Morley), Huddersfield: Smith/Doorstop, 1990

Mimi Khalvati: Come fanno le ombre (a cura di Eleonora Chiavetta) Sciascia editore, 2006

Earthshine, Manchester: Huddersfield: Smith/Doorstop, 2013

4: AS EDITOR

The Blue Nose Anthology (with others), London, Blue Nose Press, 1993

Tying the Song (with Pascale Petit), London: Enitharmon Press, 2000

Fifty Fifty: Fifty Poems from Fifty Years of the Poetry Library, 1953-2003 (with others), London, South Bank Centre, 2003

Murray Street (pamphlet), London, Poetry School Production, 2003

Entering the Tapestry (with Graham Fawcett), London: Enitharmon, 2003

Poetry to Calm your Soul, London: MQP, 2005

This Little Stretch of Life (with Karen Green), London: Hearing Eye, 2006

I am twenty people! (with Stephen Knight), London: Enitharmon Press, 2007

Saudade: an anthology of Fardo poetry, London: Calouste-Gulbenkian Foundation, 2010

5: SUBSTANTIAL APPEARANCE IN ANTHOLOGIES

Anvil New Poets, London: Anvil, 1990. (ed. Graham Fawcett)

New Women Poets, Newcastle, Bloodaxe, 1990. (ed. Carol Rumens)

Camden Voices, London: Katabasis, 1990. (ed. Dinah Livingstone)

Sixty Women Poets, Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 1993. (ed. Linda France)

Making for Planet Alice, Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 1997. (ed. Maura Dooley)

Making Worlds: One Hundred Contemporary Women Poets, Wirral: Headland, 2003. (ed. Myra Schneider, Dilys Wood & Gladys Mary Coles)

Poetry International, 7/8, 2003-4, USA: San Diego State University Press, 2004. (ed. John Kinsella)

6: APPEARANCE IN REFERENCE BOOKS

Contemporary Authors No.142, Gale Publishing

Oxford Guide to Twentieth Century Writing in English, OUP 1996 (ed. Jenny Stringer)

Lives of the Poets (ed. Michael Schmidt) London: Phoenix, 1999 ‘Beyond Stylistic Irony’, (pp 1005-6)

The Internationalization of English Literature. Vol 13 (1948-2000) of The Oxford English Literary History, Oxford, OUP, 2004 (ed. Bruce King)

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary ‘Black’ British Writers, Gale Research, 2007 (ed. Prof. R. Victoria Arana)

7: RECORDINGS/BROADCAST/TV

New Voices, recording of reading by MK and David Morley in the Voice Box, Royal Festival Hall, London, 1991. Held by Poetry Library, London.

National Poetry Day, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Knowledge, 5 October 2000.

Twenty Minutes, BBC Radio 3, 2001

Something Understood, Radio Scotland 2001

Poetry Proms, BBC Radio 3, 2001. (Poetry at the Serpentine Gallery) ‘Don’t ask me, love, for that first love’

‘The Dying of the Light’, Channel 4, 2002

Poetry in Performance Volume 1 (CD), 57 Productions 2002

Night Waves, BBC Radio 3, 2002

The Talk Show, BBC 4, 2003

Night Waves, BBC Radio 3, 2003

Word On The Street, BBC Radio 4, 2003

Off the Page, BBC Radio 4, 2004

Writings on Exodus, Barbican Art, 2004 (commissioned by Barbican Education)

Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, 31 January 2004

The Poetry Archive, 2005, substantial selection

A Thousand Years of Persian Ghazal, BBC World Service, 2005

Life Lines, Poets for Oxfam, Oxfam CD, 2006

8: INTERVIEWS

E-Run, No.1, Spring 1998, interview with Michèle Monks

PN Review, No.130. Vol. 26. No.2, 1999. ‘Poetry To Live Your Life By’, in conversation with Vicki Bertram

Magma 18, Autumn 2000. ‘A Certain Kind of Energy’ with Mary MacRae

Other Poetry, No.11 ‘In Other Words’ in conversation with Mahendra Solanki

www.poetryclass.net (2001). The Poetryclass, interview with Jean Sprackland

As Poet in Residence, Royal Mail (May – October, 2000) 2002

The Times, 26 October 2002, interview with David Mattin

The Wolf, Issue 3, Spring 2003, interview with Valeria Melchioretto

www.lidiavianu,scriptmania.com (23 Feb 2003), interview with Lidia Vianu

Brittle Star, Issue 6, Spring 2003. ‘Each Note Singing’ an interview with Jacqueline Gabbitas

Plant Care, A Festschrift for Mimi Khalvati. ‘A Desire for Memory’ interview with Eleonora Chiavetta

International Notebook of Poetry, No.5, 2004.  Interview with Elena Nistor

Mezzocielo, N.3, June 2005, interview with Eleonora Chiavetta

9: MISCELLANEOUS PROSE

Poetry London, Vol 25, Autumn 1996. ‘A Good Thing’, essay on workshops.

Poetry Review, Vol 91, No.4, 2001 ‘Mimi Khalvati on this year’s winner of the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize – Michael Murphy’

Rewriting the Map, Darlington: Vane Women Press, 2003. Foreword

Times Educational Supplement, Friday section, 7 September 2001, essay on early poetic influences.

Times Educational Supplement, Friday section, ‘Young Poet’ feature weekly 14 September-7 December, poems by children selected and with a brief commentary by MK, as TES guest poet for Autumn term 2001.

10: BOOK REVIEWS & CRITICAL APPRAISALS

Acumen, April 1992, Review of In White Ink by Glyn Pursglove; No. 22, May 1995, Review of Mirrorwork by Glyn Pursglove; No.25, May 1996, ‘Poetic Assessment 1: Mimi Khalvati’ by Glyn Pursglove; No.31, May 1998, Review of Entries on Light by KA Perryman

Ambit, No. 155, 1999, Review of Entries on Light by Julia Casterton; No. 172, Spring 2003, Review of The Chine by Vernon Scannell

The Asian Reporter, Vol. 10, No. 31, August 2000. Review of Entries on Light by Douglas Spangle

Biblio, Vol. VIII, Nos. 3 & 4.  March-April 2003.  Review of The Chine by Tabish Khair

Boston Review, October/November 2004. Review of The Chine by Rafael Campo

The Downland Poets, Vol. 4, Issue 11, May 2005. Review of Entries on Light by Selwyn Veater

Financial Times, 8 June 2002.  Review of The Chine by Ruth Padel

Golestaneh, No.68,2005.  Bio-critical essay by Farideh Hassanzadeh

The Independent, 28 November 1990, ‘Books of the Year’ by Aamer Hussein: Entries on Light; 18 May 2002. Review of The Chine by Carol Rumens

Leggere Donna, n.105, July/August 2003, ‘Rubaiyat per Telajune’, by Rosella Simonari

Linkway, No. 24, May 2001. Review of Selected Poems by Les Merton

Magma, No. 23, Summer 2002, Review of The Chine by Mary MacRae

Mslexia, No. 9, Spring-Summer 2001. ‘Triplets’ by Linda France

New Statesman & Society, 19 May 1995. Review of Mirrorwork by Christina Patterson

The North, No.12. Review of In White Ink by John Killick; No. 16/17. Review of Mirrorwork by Jackie Wills; No. 23, 1998. Review of Entries on Light by Jane Holland; No. 30, 2002. Review of The Chine by RV Bailey

Plant Care, A Festschrift for Mimi Khalvati, Linda Lee Books 2002.‘A Foster-tongue’ by Michael Schmidt

Poetry London Newsletter, Vol. 2, No.4, Spring 1991. Review of Persian Miniatures by Pascale Petit; 1995. Review of Mirrorwork by Pascale Petit; No. 30, Summer 98. Review of Entries on Light by Julia Copus; No. 37, Autumn 2000. Review of Selected Poems by David Constantine; No. 42, Summer 2002. Review of The Chine by Bernard O’Donoghue

Poetry Quarterly Review, No.10, Summer/Autumn 1998. Review of Entries on Light by Myra Schneider; No.19, Spring 2002. Review of The  Chine by Debjani Chattergee

Poetry Wales, 2002, Review of The Chine by Moniza Alvi

PN Review, No. 84, March-April 1992. Review of In White Ink by Miriam Hastings; No. 104, July-August 1995. Review of Mirrorwork by Loriaine Fletcher; No.121, May-June 1998. Review of Entries on Light, by Andrew Zawacki

Poetry Review, Vol. 80, No.4, 1990/1. Review of Persian Miniatures by Eva Salzman; Vol. 82. No.1. Spring, 1992. Review of In White Ink by Ian McMillan; Vol. 85, No.2, Summer 1995. ‘Feeling-Fields and Mirrorwork: The Poetry of Mimi Khalvati’ by John Killick; Vol. 88, No.3, Autumn 1998. Review of Entries on Light, by Kwame Dawes; Vol. 90, No.3, Autumn 2000. Review of Selected Poems by Gillian Allnutt; Vol. 92, No.2, Summer, 2002. Review of The Chine, by Sian Hughes

Poetry Wales, Vol. 38/2, Autumn 2002. Review of The Chine by Moniza Alvi

The Reader, No. 11, Autumn/Winter 2002. Review of The Chine by Kate Keogan

Second Light Anthology, Summer 1998.  Review of Entries on Light by Myra Schneider

Second Light Newsletter II, 1998. Review of Entries on Light by Dilys Wood;  No.VII, 2000. Review of Selected Poems by Lyn Moir;  Autumn 2001. Review of The Chine by Lyn Moir;  No. XI, 2002.  Review of The Chine by Dilys Wood

Sheffield Thursday, No. 4/5, Autumn 1994, Review of In White Ink by Deborah Tyler-Bennett; No. 6. Summer 1995, Review of Mirrorwork by Deborah Tyler-Bennett; No. 8, Spring 1999, Review of Entries on Light by Christopher Truman

Sunday Telegraph, 15 December 1991.  Review of In White Ink by Charles Osborne

Sunday Times, 28 May 1995. Review of Mirrorwork by Alan Brownjohn; 11 August 2002.  Review of The Chine by Sean O’Brien

Swansea Review, No. 9. ‘A View from the Margins: the work of Mimi Khalvati’ by Miriam Hastings

The Tablet, 26 August 2000. Review of Selected Poems

Times Literary Supplement, 10 May 1991. Review of Persian Miniatures by Tim Dooley; 14 August 1992. Review of In White Ink by Robert Potts; 1 March 1996. Review of Mirrorwork; 17 November 2000. Review of Selected Poems by John Greening

Wasafiri, Spring No.15, Spring 1992. Review of In White Ink by Martin Turner; No. 15, Spring 1992. Review of In White Ink by Miriam Hastings; No. 33, Spring 2001. Review of Selected Poems by Judith Kazantzis

World Literature Today, Winter 2002. Review of Selected Poems by Bruce King

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