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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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fiction

August 2013

How to Be an American

Will Heinrich

fiction

August 2013

Begin with a man on the beach. The sea is strangely iridescent, lighter in its lights and blacker in...

poetry

September 2011

Sleepwalking through the Mekong

Michael Earl Craig

poetry

September 2011

I have my hands out in front of me. I’m lightly patting down everything I come across. I somehow...

poetry

May 2015

Europe

Kirill Medvedev

TR. Keith Gessen

poetry

May 2015

I’m riding the bus with a group of athletes from some provincial town they’re going to a competition in...

 

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