Inspired by Shakespeare s songs, the short poems of Emily Dickinson, and Wordsworth s Lucy poems, this collection of songlike poetry is based on the ubiquitous spread of weedslike the shallow rooting plants, small poems can grow anywhere. Featuring a number of traditional forms but also showcasing the ancient Persian Ghazal, these poems reinstate the joyful audible aspect of the lyric."

As it journeys through the author s life, this collection by Anglo-Iranian poet Mimi Khalvati explores childhood, motherhood, loss, eroticism, and the natural world. Lyrical and resonant, this compilationhaunted by the child-self that is never quite left behindcombines some essential selections of Khalvati s previous work with new poems.The poems featuretraditional forms as well asexperiments with the Ghazal, an ancient Persian form comprised of an unrhymed couplet."

In these new poems, each of them written in couplets and contained within the space of 16 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.

Prize-winning Iranian-born poet and celebrated founder of The Poetry School (London) explores her diverse culture in a series of brilliant `oriental sonnets.'