Exploring the intersections of art, science, and travel, this collection features "exploded essays" that delve into themes of light, image, and perception. The author invites readers to reconsider the world and its mysteries through a series of thought-provoking reflections. Celebrated for their poetic and narrative depth, the essays encourage a sense of wonder and curiosity about the unseen aspects of life.
This Selected Poems offers the perfect introduction to a distinguished body of work that has established Lavinia Greenlaw as one of the most perceptive and original poets of her generation.
'A pointed, svelte but diverse work.' Irish TimesPart memoir, part manifesto, Some Answers Without Questions is an elegant, important and spirited work of self-investigation;
The Built Moment explores what we build out of the provisional: beginnings and endings, arrivals and departures, and the moments we fix as memories, fixing too their joy and pain. The first section, 'The Sea is an Edge and an Ending', is a sequence of poems about her father's dementia and his disappearance into the present tense.
In the City of Love's Sleep reveals love in all its inscrutable complexity: the raw nature of feeling and its uncontrollable, inconsistent, unsettling truths.
The Victorian artist and activist William Morris travelled to Iceland in search of an answer to the problem of how to live.
Galileo's wife, a young woman dying of radium poisoning, the first dog in space, a strangely obsessed concert pianist, an early beneficiary of plastic surgery, and a Russian boy whose adventures are sadly limited by the immature powers of the child who has conjured him up are just some of the figures encompassed by Lavinia Greenlaw's imagination. The poet's level gaze as she contemplates the more bizarre aspects of science and of human behaviour lends further distinction to this, her first collection.
A World Where News Travelled Slowly by Lavinia Greenlaw is the second collection from the author of the acclaimed Night Photograph, embodying a striking new voice in English poetry.
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). One of the most prestigious awards for the short story has reached its eleventh year. Hugely successful, the BBC National Short Story Award, in partnership with Booktrust, awards 15,000 to the winning author, with 3000 going to the runner-up
The enduring love story of Troilus and Criseyde is reimagined in A Double Sorrow, where Lavinia Greenlaw revitalizes the medieval narrative through a series of seven-line stanzas that echo Chaucer's style. This poetic adaptation captures the essence of the original tale while exploring themes of love and loss, offering a contemporary perspective on a classic story that has resonated through the ages.