Lavinia Greenlaw Livres

Published in association with the 14-18 NOW campaign and the Imperial War Museum.

'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 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.

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.

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.

Lavinia Greenlaw’s mesmerising debut novel about growing up in the surreal banality of mid-1970s Essex.

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.

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.

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.

The Victorian artist and activist William Morris travelled to Iceland in search of an answer to the problem of how to live.