No 34 - Spring 2006 MP3 Issue contents of this issue bibliographic notice other issues online about this magazine search other magazines Mimi Khalvati Signal Mimi Khalvati reading Signal 908 KB Play  Right click here and select save to download the audio file. You’d think that in all this open space, nothing but fields for miles around and some cows and trees, you’d get a signal. Only behind the goosehouse, the roses, in one of those patches of grass that make no sense, too small to cross or lie on, with a sheltering wall at your back, beanrow on your left, on a triangle of grass doing nothing and going nowhere, can you stand and even then, only with somebody else behind you, wind blowing their hair and their own mobile fisted against the rain, with two or three others besides to bulwark you – you a child stripping down on a beach, they a towel or windbreak – do you stand a hope in heaven or hell of reaching somebody out there sometime, somewhere. Mimi Khalvati has published five collections with Carcanet Press including her Selected Poems in 2000 and, most recently, The Chine. She is the founder of The Poetry School and lives in London. page(s) 58   Poetry Library Royal Festival Hall Hayward Gallery