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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

Essay

February 2019

Lavinia Greenlaw

Essay

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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Interview

Issue No. 13

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Orlando Reade

Interview

Issue No. 13

Modern philosophy is threatened by love, whose objects are never only objects. Philosophers have discovered in love a lived...

Interview

Issue No. 1

Interview with China Miéville

Ben Eastham

Interview

Issue No. 1

It is a cliché to say that a writer’s work resists classification. It is ironic then that China Miéville,...

Interview

Issue No. 1

Interview with Paula Rego

Ben Eastham

Helen Graham

Interview

Issue No. 1

Dame Paula Rego introduces me into her North London home with a crooked smile and a plate of biscuits....

 

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