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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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poetry

August 2013

To the Woman

Adam Seelig

poetry

August 2013

Interview

March 2017

Interview with Bae Suah

Deborah Smith

Bae Suah

Interview

March 2017

The Essayist’s Desk, published in 2003 and written when its author Bae Suah had just returned from an 11-month...

Interview

November 2016

Interview with Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Cassie Davies

Interview

November 2016

Njideka Akunyili Crosby first encountered Mary Louise Pratt’s ‘Arts of the Contact Zone’ (1991), which identifies ‘social spaces where cultures meet,...

 

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