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Lavinia Greenlaw
Lavinia Greenlaw is a writer of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction known for investigating the shared imperatives of art and science. She lives in east London. Her first novel, Mary George of Allnorthover, received France’s Prix du Premier Roman Étranger. Her two books of creative nonfiction are The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. In 2016, she wrote and directed a short film, The Sea is an Edge and an Endinga study of the impact of dementia on our sense of time and place, drawing on Shakespeare’s Tempest. Her third novel, In the City of Love’s Sleepwas published in 2018. Her sixth poetry collection, The Built Moment, will be published in February 2019.

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THE VAST EXTENT: ON SEEING AND NOT SEEING FURTHER

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February 2019

Lavinia Greenlaw

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February 2019

Caves, sleep, absence of light     1. Oh what is this light that holds us fast? Frank O’Hara [1]   I was about to...

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January 2014

The Dispossessed

Szilárd Borbély

TR. Ottilie Mulzet

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January 2014

The Dispossessed is Szilárd Borbély’s first novel, although he has been active – and widely acclaimed – as a poet,...

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Issue No. 19

Editorial

The Editors

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Issue No. 19

‘A crisis becomes a crisis when the white male body is affected,’ writes the philosopher Rosi Braidotti, interviewed in...

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October 2013

A World of Sharp Edges: A Week Among Poets in the Western Cape

André Naffis-Sahely

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October 2013

In Antal Szerb’s The Incurable, the eccentric millionaire Peter Rarely steps into the dining car of a train steaming...

 

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