Homesickness and Exile Peter Carpenter Mimi Khalvati

Mimi Khalvati

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illustrator and author

Her poetry has been anthologised in Irish Poetry Now: Other Voices

is both thematically and formally his most diverse and engaging work to date

Homesickness and Exile Peter Carpenter Mimi KhalvatiIm weary lying here among distant peoples, places,in sickness now thoughts come to me, of whats not here. Ovid, Tristia, III. 3. 13 14 How does it feel to be a foreigner? Can you choose where you call home? What if you reject your home or your home rejects you? Homesickness and Exile is a fascinating collection of poems about the fundamental human need to belong to a place, as poets from across the world provide profound and moving insights into the