Thursday 28th February 2018 @ 7pm
Judith E Wilson Studio, English Faculty, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP
“An ambitious and thought-provoking experiment in charting the fugitive moments that make a life.”
Stevie Davies for The Guardian reviewing Lavinia Greenlaw’s latest book In the City of Love’s Sleep (2018).
Lavinia Greenlaw has published five collections of poetry with Faber & Faber including Minsk (2003), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes, and The Casual Perfect (2011). A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde (2014) was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. Her next collection, The Built Moment, will appear in February 2019.
Her first novel, Mary George of Allnorthover, was published in 2001 and won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger. A second novel, An Irresponsible Age, appeared in 2006, followed by two non-fiction works: The Importance of Music to Girls (2007) and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland (2011). She has published and broadcast short stories, including We Are Watching Something Terrible Happening and The Darkest Place in England, both of which were shortlisted for the National Short Story Award. Her third novel, In the City of Love’s Sleep, was published in 2018. She is also an arts historian and sound artist.