Lavinia Greenlaw's Selected Poems provides a timely retrospective on thirty years of highly distinctive poetic output. The selection draws on five collections to date and from her free translation of Troilus and Criseyde.
From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is an ingenious constellation of "exploded essays" about light and image, seeing and the unseen.
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,
Eine Liebe wider die Zumutungen des erlebten Lebens.
Wie lieben wir? Und wie verändert sich die Liebe im Laufe unseres Lebens? Iris, eine Museumskonservatorin in den mittleren Vierzigern, lernt auf einem Empfang den Historiker Raif kennen. Es scheint Liebe auf den ersten Blick, und
mit ihrer Begegnung stellt sich die Frage nach einem glücklichen Leben für beide noch einmal ganz neu. Wann sind wir bereit, ein neues Kapitel aufzuschlagen und wi...
Musik ist mehr als Töne
Herausgerissen aus ihrem vertrauten Londoner Umfeld und ins ländliche Essex verpflanzt, entdeckt Lavinia Greenlaw, entwurzelt und einsam, zwischen Klavier-und Geigenunterricht, den abendlichen Madrigalchorproben der Mutter, Opernbesuchen mit dem Vater und Radio Luxemburg ihre Liebe und Faszination für die Musik. Mit der beginnenden Pubertät setzt eine lange Identitätskrise ein. Ihre chamäleonartige Zugehörigkeit zu ver...
The result is a spirited and vital exercise of personal philosophy - about what it means to be free, to be fulfilled and to be recognised. Part-memoir, part-manifesto, Some Answers Without Questions places artistic identity and the impulse to create and record - to say something - at the heart of a personal journey.
Poems on loss and possibility, with death becoming a part of life with the advancement of years, with this adding gravitas to how the ageing person goes about their life. Greenlaw's "Minsk" was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes.
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.
Neue Gedichte von einer der originellsten Stimmen der zeitgenössischen Lyrik: Ob Lavinia Greenlaw über griechische Mythen, das Ende einer Ehe oder Albert Einsteins Realität ohne Fixpunkt schreibt, stets interessiert sie das Vorläufige. Sie beschreibt den Moment, in dem die Wahrnehmung sich bildet und Landschaften - reale und imaginierte - entstehen. Ihr neuer Band glänzt durch sprachliche Präzision und Experimentierlust. Greenlaws Gedichte sin...
The intensity of falling in love in middle age is shown to be as intense as in adolescence in this story of the romantic fallout from a wordless encounter between a separating museum conservator and a widowed academic with a girlfriend. 'Everything Greenlaw touches glitters and resonates' "Vogue
Combining excerpts from Morris's Icelandic writings with her own eye-witness response to the country, Greenlaw follows in his footsteps and interposes his prose, with her own 'questions of travel'. The result is a brilliant exploration into our conflicted reasons for not staying at home.
Lavinia Greenlaw's first collection, Night Photograph, made an immediately favourable impact. Her second collection, A World Where News Travelled Slowly explores more local and personal matters. This volume serves to confirm the gifts Lavinia Greenlaw showed in her first book.
If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway. This book tells the story of the adventures that music leads us into: getting drunk, falling in love, dying of boredom, cutting our hair, terrifying our parents, wanting to change the world.
Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved Criseyde, whose traitorous father has defected to the Greeks and has persuaded them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of prisoners. In an attempt to save her, Troilus suggests that Criseyde flees the besieged city with him, but she knows that she will be universally condemned.
If Lavinia Greenlaw's Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the road between two lives.
