An Evening of Persian and English Poetry

Presented by Asia House Festival of Asian Literature in partnership with Iran Heritage Foundation

At an evening of Persian and English poetry reading, poets Mimi Khalvati and Ziba Karbassi look at the interplay of their Iranian heritage and the influences of their lives in England. Poet and translator Stephen Watts will read the English translations of Karbassi’s poems.

Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran and grew upon the Isle of Wight. She founded the Theatre in Exile group, is a Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths College and runs poetry workshops and courses in London. Her most recent collection The Meanest Flower (2007) was shortlisted for the 2007 T.S.Eliot Prize.

Ziba Karbassi is one of the rising stars of Iranian poetry, with seven volumes of poetry in Persian which have received wide critical acclaim.

Stephen Watts is a poet, translator and professor, who is currently translating an entire volume of Karbassi’s work into English.

Dominic Parviz Brookshaw is Lecturer in Persian Studies and Iranian Literature at the School of Languages, Linguistics, and Cultures, University of Manchester.

Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP

Full Price £10
Concession £7

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