If Lavinia Greenlaw's 'Minsk' was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the road between two lives.
If Lavinia Greenlaw's 'Minsk' was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the road between tw...
When Chaucer composed 'Troilus and Criseyde' he gave us, some say, his finest poem, and with it one of the most captivating love stories ever written. 'A Double Sorrow' takes its title from the opening line of that poem in a fresh telling of this most tortured of love affairs.
When Chaucer composed 'Troilus and Criseyde' he gave us, some say, his finest poem, and with it one of the most captivating love stories ever written....
Galileo's wife, a young woman dying of radium poisoning, the first dog in space, a strangely obsessed concert pianist, an early beneficiary of plastic surgery, and a Russian boy whose adventures are sadly limited by the immature powers of the child who has conjured him up are just some of the figures encompassed by Lavinia Greenlaw's imagination.
Galileo's wife, a young woman dying of radium poisoning, the first dog in space, a strangely obsessed concert pianist, an early beneficiary of plastic...
Exploring local and personal matters, this volume also includes poems that are concerned with attempts at preservation - plundered relics, the stately home, an iron lung.
Exploring local and personal matters, this volume also includes poems that are concerned with attempts at preservation - plundered relics, the stately...
