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The Weather Wheel
In these new poems, each of them written in couplets and contained within the space of sixteen lines, Mimi Khalvati takes the weather, the seasons and the passage of night and day as the ground on which she draws her emblems of human life and love. An extended elegy for her mother, the book is also a series of meditations on the small details of animals’ lives, and on the vulnerable animal within the human being.
- GenresPoetry
80 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2014
About the author
Mimi Khalvati
21 books5 followersMimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran. She grew up on the Isle of Wight, where she attended boarding school from the age of six, and has lived most of her life in England. She trained at Drama Centre London and has worked as an actor and director in the UK and Iran.
She has published eight collections of poetry with Carcanet Press, including The Weather Wheel, The Meanest Flower, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, a Financial Times Book of the Year, and shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and, most recently, Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her work has been translated into nine languages and she received a Cholmondeley Award in 2006. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Mimi is the founder of The Poetry School and was the Coordinator from 1997–2004. She is a core tutor for the School and has co-edited its three anthologies of new writing published by Enitharmon Press.
She is also a freelance poetry tutor and has worked with arts organisations such as the Arvon Foundation and the South Bank Centre and has taught at universities in the UK, Europe and America.
She has published eight collections of poetry with Carcanet Press, including The Weather Wheel, The Meanest Flower, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, a Financial Times Book of the Year, and shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and, most recently, Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her work has been translated into nine languages and she received a Cholmondeley Award in 2006. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Mimi is the founder of The Poetry School and was the Coordinator from 1997–2004. She is a core tutor for the School and has co-edited its three anthologies of new writing published by Enitharmon Press.
She is also a freelance poetry tutor and has worked with arts organisations such as the Arvon Foundation and the South Bank Centre and has taught at universities in the UK, Europe and America.
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September 1, 2016
[…] all is dusk,
dusk in the heart, in all our finer feelings.
dusk in the heart, in all our finer feelings.
March 28, 2026
A mixed bag, but when it's good, it's really good. Also, each poem and the whole collection are very well-crafted, which is one of the hallmarks of this poet.
June 6, 2023
"You are the shadows who have miniaturised the cryosphere / into a garden of paradise, yours the silhouettes facing fire."
The Weather Wheel is proof that such beauty can arise from the hardest of losses, like the loss of Khalvati's mother which inspired many of these poems.
The Weather Wheel is proof that such beauty can arise from the hardest of losses, like the loss of Khalvati's mother which inspired many of these poems.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews