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SUMMARY:Mimi Khalvati: Rylands Poetry Reading (Manchester Literature Fest
 ival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
 
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the annual Rylands Poetry Reading\, this year del
 ivered by one of our best-loved poets Mimi Khalvati. Her award-winning l
 yrical poetry has been inspired by everything from her Persian backgroun
 d to her travels in the Mediterranean. She employs a variety of poetic f
 orms from sonnets to ghazals to capture the richness of life through the
  lens of her fragmented heritage.\n\nTickets are free and booking recomm
 ended at this link https://manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/mim
 i-khalvati-rylands-poetry-reading \nDrinks reception 6pm-7pm. \n\nMimi K
 halvati has published ten poetry collections with Carcanet including The
  Meanest Flower\, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Weather W
 heel\, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and a book of the year in Th
 e Independent. Her 2024 Collected Poems brings together her earlier work
 s alongside previously unpublished poems. She was the founder of The Poe
 try School\, was awarded the 2023 King's Gold Medal for Poetry and was t
 he winner of the Jhalak Poetry Prize 2025.\n\nPresented in partnership w
 ith the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester.
STATUS:TENTATIVE
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:John Rylands Research Institute and Library\, 150 Deansgate\, Ma
 nchester\, Gtr Manchester\, M3 3EH
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