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- Book Synopsis
- 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. The poet's level gaze as she contemplates the more bizarre aspects of science and of human behaviour lends further distinction to this, her first collection.
- About The Author
- Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London. She studied seventeenth-century art at the Courtauld Institute, and was the first artist in residence at the Science Museum. Her awards include a Nesta Fellowship, the Ted Hughes Award for her immersive soundwork, Audio Obscura, and a Wellcome Engagement Fellowship. She has published six collections of poetry with Faber, including Minsk (2003), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry prizes, A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde (2014) which was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, and The Built Moment (2019). Her novels include In the City of Love's Sleep (2018), and her non-fiction includes The Importance of Music to Girls (2007), Some Answers Without Questions (2021) and The Vast Extent: On Seeing and Not Seeing Further (2024). Her Selected Poems was published in 2024. She is Emeritus Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780571326341
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (18 February 2016)
- Number of Pages
- 64
- Weight
- 90 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 200 x 130 x 7 mm
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