Afterwardness
eBook - ePub

Afterwardness

  1. 72 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Afterwardness

About this book

A 2019 Poetry Book Society Winter Wild Card.

A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2019

Ever since her first Carcanet book, In White Ink (1991), Mimi Khalvati has been drawn to the sonnet form. In Afterwardness its pull became irresistible. She has created in this unprogrammatic series, mixing memory, history, daily life, all her intersecting geographies and cultures, a self-portrait in all her moods, anxieties and delights. The sonnet form is stretched in all sorts of fruitful directions. Just as she adapted the ghazal form to English use, here she puts the Petrarchan sonnet to striking, unfamiliar use, widening the possibilities of the form. The poems are rich with Khalvati's personal history, her Iranian origins, her long years in Great Britain. The poems play between cultures, ancestral and acquired.

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CONTENTS

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Questions
  4. Translation
  5. Handwriting
  6. Dictation
  7. Elocution
  8. Background Music
  9. Background Music (ii)
  10. Dreamers
  11. Afterwardness
  12. Scripto Inferior
  13. CafƩs
  14. Jolanta
  15. The Brag
  16. Hide And Seek
  17. The Introvert House
  18. Outpatients
  19. Villajoyosa
  20. The Boy
  21. Dysphagia
  22. The Artist as a Child
  23. The Lesser Brethren
  24. Torbay
  25. Maria
  26. Old Stamping Grounds
  27. Chamaeleonidae
  28. The Colours My Mother Wore
  29. My Mother’s Lighter
  30. My Mother’s Portrait
  31. The Courtyard
  32. Twelve
  33. Very
  34. Bush Cricket
  35. Reading under Trees
  36. Postcard from Crete ...

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Questions
  5. Translation
  6. Handwriting
  7. Dictation
  8. Elocution
  9. Background Music
  10. Background Music (ii)
  11. Dreamers
  12. Afterwardness
  13. Scripto Inferior
  14. CafƩs
  15. Jolanta
  16. The Brag
  17. Hide And Seek
  18. The Introvert House
  19. Outpatients
  20. Villajoyosa
  21. The Boy
  22. Dysphagia
  23. The Artist as a Child
  24. The Lesser Brethren
  25. Torbay
  26. Maria
  27. Old Stamping Grounds
  28. Chamaeleonidae
  29. The Colours My Mother Wore
  30. My Mother’s Lighter
  31. My Mother’s Portrait
  32. The Courtyard
  33. Twelve
  34. Very
  35. Bush Cricket
  36. Reading under Trees
  37. Postcard from Crete
  38. The Street
  39. Friends House
  40. The Older Reader
  41. The Living Room
  42. Life Writing
  43. Eggs
  44. September
  45. The Ice Rink
  46. In Praise of the Sestet
  47. Night Writing
  48. ā€˜Petites Salissures’
  49. One Summer Holiday
  50. Facades
  51. Physiognomy
  52. Smiles
  53. Homa
  54. My Sixth Birthday Party
  55. Junior School Production
  56. Azarinejad and Bear
  57. Mehrabad Airport
  58. Mehrabad Airport (ii)
  59. Vapour Trails
  60. Notes
  61. Acknowledgements
  62. About the Author
  63. Copyright