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Entering the Tapestry: A Second Anthology from the Poetry School

Entering the Tapestry: A Second Anthology from the Poetry School

by Mimi Khalvati (Editor), Graham Fawcett (Editor)

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'One vast page ranging away from view, no paragraphs for pauses. Where to begin, how to find a loose thread that invites unravelling. Each sentence slips out of its predecessor and into the next, wave upon wave of calligraphy, not a lapse or hesitation in sight' - from Sea Script by Anne Ryland. Entering the Tapestry , the second volume in The Poetry School's warmly welcomed series of anthologies of new voices, presents a generous selection of work from thirty poets. Some are on their way to a first collection, others exploring what might lie beyond the success of individual poems.All of them offer, not only an abundance of talent, but the delight of fully achieved poems and the presence of an individual voice. In its variety of style, tone, length and subject matter, Entering the Tapestry is an invitation to enjoy the contrasts and follow the distinctive threads in a vivid spectrum of new writing, whether it falls within current fashions or dares to strike out beyond. The poets featured include: Frances Angela, Matt Barnard, Chris Beckett, Linda Black, Diana Brodie, Nadine Brummer, Robert Chandler, Valerie Clarke, Heather Coffey, Tricia Corob, Wendy French, Jacqueline Gabbitas, Lucy Hamilton, Bryan Heiser, Fawzia Kane, Nell Keddie, Khan Singh Kumar, Julia Lewis, Maureen Li, Tony McKeown, Dominic McLoughlin, Mary MacRae, Bill Presley, Meryl Pugh, Jo Roach, Anna Robinson, Beverley Rowe, Anne Ryland, Deborah Sacks, Ruth Smith.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 122
 Publisher: Enitharmon Press
Published: 21 Oct 2003
ISBN 10: 1900564483
ISBN 13: 9781900564489

Author Bio
Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran, on 28 April 1944. She grew up on the Isle of Wight and was educated in Switzerland at the University of Neuchatel, and in London at the Drama Centre and the School of African and Oriental Studies. She has worked as an actor and director in both the UK and Iran, founding Matrix, a women's experimental theatre group, and co-founding Theatre in Exile. She is co-ordinator of the Poetry School, running poetry workshops and courses in London, and is co-editor of Tying the Song: A First Anthology from the Poetry School 1997-2000 (2000); Entering the Tapestry: A Second Anthology from the Poetry School (2003); and I Am Twenty People: A Third Anthology from the Poetry School (2007). She is a tutor at the Arvon Foundation, and has taught Creative Writing at universities and colleges in the US and England. She was Poet in Residence at the Royal Mail as part of the Poetry Society's Poetry Places scheme and has given readings of her work at the Voice Box at the South Bank Centre in London, the Poetry Society and at festivals in Britain and mainland Europe.Her poetry collections include In White Ink (1991), Mirrorwork (1995), for which she was awarded an Arts Council Writers' Award, Entries on Light, and The Chine (2002). A Selected Poems was published in 2000 and a new collection, The Meanest Flower, in 2007, shortlisted for the 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize. She is also the author of a children's book, I Know a Place, published in 1985.