Mimi Khalvati: Rylands Poetry Reading

Advance tickets for this event are now available for MLF Get Closer Members to buy. Memberships start at £25 per year - for full details of membership benefits and buying options click HERE. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Thursday 14 August at 10am.

Join us for the annual Rylands Poetry Reading, this year delivered by one of our best-loved poets Mimi Khalvati. Her award-winning lyrical poetry has been inspired by everything from her Persian background to her travels in the Mediterranean. She employs a variety of poetic forms from sonnets to ghazals to capture the richness of life through the lens of her fragmented heritage.

Mimi Khalvati has published ten poetry collections with Carcanet including The Meanest Flower, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Weather Wheel, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and a book of the year in The Independent. Her 2024 Collected Poems brings together her earlier works alongside previously unpublished poems. She was the founder of The Poetry School, was awarded the 2023 King's Gold Medal for Poetry and was the winner of the Jhalak Poetry Prize 2025.

Presented in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester.

All ticket holders for this event are invited to join us for a pre-event Drinks Reception from 6pm.

Wheelchair Users and those with other access needs requiring a free Essential Carer ticket should contact the Quaytickets Box Office on 0161 876 2015 to purchase tickets.