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Minsk: Poems
Lavinia Greenlaw

Harcourt, 2005

From the London Zoo to an Essex village and the Arctic Circle, Greenlaw explores elements of place-the child-hood landscapes we leave behind, those we travel toward, and those that we believe to be missing from our lives. Greenlaw's restless, inquisitive tone builds to make Minsk a hypnotic collection from one of the leading poets of her generation. Camel Hair Every few years it becomes a question of backbone. Anhedonia, not love of winter ...

Thoughts of a Night Sea
Lavinia Greenlaw

Merrell, 2003

Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music

Duke University Press, 2007

Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, the essays in Listen Again pinpoint magic moments from a century of pop eclecticism, looking at artists who fall between genre lines, songs that sponge up influences from everywhere, and studio accidents with unforeseen consequences. Listen Again collects some of the finest presentations from the celebrated Experience Music Project Pop Conference, where journalists, musicians, ...

The Importance of Music to Girls

2 reviews
Lavinia Greenlaw

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

F*** art, let's dance.
The Importance of Music to Girls, by Lavinia Greenlaw is a memoir not so much of childhood and adolescence, but of her developing relationship with music in 1970s Britain. There are plenty of reviews out there, and they're generally mixed. The Importance of Music to Girls made Salon.com's Summer Reads; but was skewered in London's The Independent. My reflections do not diverge much from this ...

NW14: The Anthology of New Writing
Lavinia Greenlaw, Helon Habila

Granta UK, 2006

The Importance of Music to Girls
Lavinia Greenlaw

Faber and Faber, 2007

An Irresponsible Age
Lavinia Greenlaw

Fourth Estate, 2007

‘An Irresponsible Age’, Lavinia Greenlaw's extraordinary new novel, is set in London in 1990, with Thatcher still in power but the country unwilling to 'abandon an idea just because it proved to be a bad one'. In these hesitant times we follow the life of Juliet Clough and her three siblings, all of them interdependent in a not-quite enviable way, clinging together after the death of a brother and the retreat of their grieving ...

Minsk

1 review
Lavinia Greenlaw

Faber & Faber, 2003

Sleek and uncompromising
Austere does not necessarily imply cool or aloof, but rather a refined sensibility for the elementary, the unadorned, to see more in less, to perceive truths with clarity. While prior works have been clean, almost scientific, Minsk, while exuding the chill of winter, is nevertheless a vehicle for fantasy, a dreamscape of an imagined land. In a thoughtful forward, Edward Hirsh discusses the ...

Mary George of Allnorthover

1 review
Lavinia Greenlaw

Houghton Mifflin, 2001

An Interesting Tale
Mary George of Allnorthover is an unique coming-of0age novel with a unique protagonist. Mary Beorge, a young girl growing up in a small British town in the 1970s tries to deal with here parents' separation, boys, the mysteries of her own past and Tom, a local man fresh from institutionalization who believes she can walk on water. Mary is definitely on the brink of something--she can see it and ...

A World Where News Travelled Slowly (Faber Poetry)
Lavinia Greenlaw

Faber & Faber, 1997

Lavinia Greenlaw's follow-up to her well-received debut, Night Photograph , is a thought-provoking and memorable exploration of missed connections, disasters narrowly averted, and occasional glimpses of beauty. All of these themes converge in images, as when "dying wasps / make drunken passes at my hair. / They are drawn to glass, as air, / and cannot tell." The poems are driven by the gap between what can be known and what can be said, as ...

The Poetry Quartets 8: Narrative Poets (Poetry Quartets)
David Constantine, Lavinia Greenlaw

Bloodaxe Books, 2005

Night Photograph
Lavinia Greenlaw

Faber & Faber, 1993

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