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After-images (Paperback)
David J. Constantine, H. Constantine; Translated by Lavinia Greenlaw, Tom Kuhn, Adrian Mitchell
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R297
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Features writing that is, in one sense or another, a reflection or
lingering effect of poets and artists who have gone before.
'Signs and Humours' brings together 100 poems to show how one of
the most basic human concerns - the body - has continued to
preoccupy, fascinate and agitate poets.
'A pointed, svelte but diverse work.' Irish Times Part memoir, part
manifesto, Some Answers Without Questions is an elegant, important
and spirited work of self-investigation; the result of decades of
answering questions that don't really matter-and not being asked
the ones that do. 'A delight: approachable, rigorous and omnivorous
in its frame of reference. . . a timely, lyrical investigation into
what it means to create.' Observer
Morris's intimate journals, written for a friend, unconsciously
explore questions of travel, noting his reaction to the idea of
leaving or arriving, to hurry and delay, what it means to dread a
place you've never been to or to encounter the actuality of a
long-held vision. Poet Lavinia Greenlaw draws out these questions
as she follows in the footprints of Morris's prose, responding to
its surfaces and undercurrents, extending its horizons. The result
is a new and composite work, which brilliantly explores our
conflicted reasons for not staying at home.
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Joy Division (Hardcover)
Glenn Brown; Text written by Michael Bracewell, Lavinia Greenlaw
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R1,517
R1,400
Discovery Miles 14 000
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The Vast Extent is a series of short texts on the subject of vision
- pieces that cast light on one another. They encompass themes
surrounding important (and often misunderstood) artworks, history
and myth, strange voyages, scientific scrutiny and Lavinia
Greenlaw's own reminiscences on a life richly and thoughtfully
lived. These essays also feature historical figures who have had
bearing on Greenlaw's thinking about seeing and perspective,
including John Locke, Virginia Woolf, William Morris, Emily
Dickinson and Francis Bacon, among others less familiar and more
contemporary. Via conversations with scientists, philosophical
thinkers and artists, Greenlaw gives us an entire 'exploded essay'
of sorts, and opens up new possibilities for how we might perceive
our worlds.
If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason
to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that
anyway . . . the music attracted and repelled, organised and
disturbed and then let us into the night, clusters of emotion ready
to dissolve into sleep. In The Importance of Music to Girls,
Lavinia Greenlaw tells the story of the adventures that music leads
us into: getting drunk, falling in love, dying of boredom, cutting
our hair, terrifying our parents, wanting to change the world. This
is a vivid memoir unlike any other, recalling the furious passion
of being young, female, and coming alive through music.
Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Poetry Award. 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, Lavinia Greenlaw's new work, takes its title from
the opening line of that poem in a fresh telling of this most
tortured of love affairs. Set against the Siege of Troy, A Double
Sorrow is the story of Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved
Criseyde, whose traitorous father has defected to the Greeks and
has persuaded them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of
prisoners. In an attempt to save her, Troilus suggests that
Criseyde flees the besieged city with him, but she knows that she
will be universally condemned and looks instead to a temporary
measure: pretending to submit to the exchange, while promising
Troilus that she will return to him within ten days. But once in
the company of the Greeks she soon realises the impossibility of
her promise to Troilus, and in despair succumbs to another. Lavinia
Greenlaw's pinpoint retelling of this heart-wrenching tale is
neither a translation nor strictly a 'version' of Chaucer's work,
but instead creates something new: a sequence of glimpses from the
medieval poem that refine the psychological drama of the classical
story through a process of detonation or amplification of image and
phrase into original poems. In a series of skillfully crafted
seven-line vignettes, the author creates a zoetrope that serves to
illuminate the intensity with which these characters argue each
other and themselves into and out of love. The result is a
breathtaking and shattering read -contemporary and timeless - that
builds into an unforgettable telling of this most heartbreaking of
love stories.
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.
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Minsk (Paperback, Main)
Lavinia Greenlaw
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R318
R286
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A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Minsk, Lavinia Greenlaw's
third collection, was shortlisted for the 2003 Whitbread Poetry
Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best
Collection. From London Zoo to an Essex village and the Arctic
Circle, Greenlaw explores questions of place - the childhood
landscapes we leave behind, those we travel towards, and those like
'Minsk' which 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.
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. Its title recalls a phrase of Robert
Lowell's to describe Elizabeth Bishop -- one of the book's
presiding spirits, with her insistence on the provisional, on the
moment in which perception is formed, on landscape as action rather
than description. The Casual Perfect continues Lavinia Greenlaw's
explorations of light and the borders of vision, which include a
journey to the four corners of Britain to observe the solstices and
equinoxes, and a cycle about the East Anglian landscape which is
nine-tenths sky. Questions of travel hover around many of these
poems, or questions which need to be 'travelled fully' rather than
answered -- and which involve the overheard and the glimpsed, what
is gleaned from traces and external signs. The result is a
collection that is under-stated, spare but inclusive, which invites
our presence as readers.
Lavinia Greenlaw's first collection, Night Photograph, made an
immediately favourable impact. Her second collection, A World Where
News Travelled Slowly explores more local and personal matters. Its
central theme is the unpredictable act of communication, from the
mechanical to the miraculous. There are also poems that are
concerned with attempts at preservation - plundered relics, the
stately home, an iron lung. This volume serves to confirm the gifts
Lavinia Greenlaw showed in her first book.
Lavinia Greenlaw's latest collection, The Casual Perfect (2011), focused on 'the achievement of the provisional'. In the near decade since writing those poems, she has found herself exploring what we build out of the provisional: beginnings and endings, arrivals and departures, and the moments we fix as memories, fixing too their joy and pain.
The Built Moment is divided into two sections. The first, 'The Sea is an Edge and an Ending', is a sequence of poems about her father's disappearance into Alzheimer's. It is not a narrative of illness so much as a meditation on the metaphysics of memory loss. What does it mean only to exist in the present, for your sense of self to come loose and for the past to float free? The second half of the book is called 'The Bluebell Horizontal'. If the first section is about loss (the verticals), this section is about possibility (the horizontals). It includes a prayer ('Men I Have Heard in the Night'), a blessing ('Fleur de Sel') and a speculation on why we cling on to pain ('The Break'). There are poems about Joy Division and David Bowie, and an elegy for first love. There are structures that arrest remembering and forgetting - monoliths and oubliettes - and the fundamental arrest of a poet's difficulty with words.
These poems are about what we make and hold onto and offer one another. They are also about how, as we get older and death becomes more and more a part of life, what we build and what we break out of becomes more important than ever.
The UEA Creative Writing MA presents its annual selection of new
young poets. Founded in 1992, students and tutors on the course
have included Owen Sheers, Kathy Simmonds, Hugo Williams and
Anthony Thwaite.
A powerful, involving new novel, following on from the author's
much-praised debut novel 'Mary George of Allnorthover'. '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 parents. When Juliet, the focus of
them all, is drawn into a complex love affair with the enigmatic
Jacob, the others, too, find themselves falling in love, and then
evading the consequences. None will admit what they are doing, or
why.
Lavinia Greenlaw's mesmerising debut novel about growing up in the
surreal banality of mid-'70s Essex. Lavinia Greenlaw puts before us
the monochrome, immemorial middle England of the 1970s in all its
dowdy glory, and has us see through the mercurial, bewitching Mary
George's eyes how a seemingly static landscape is suddenly
illuminated by the most vivid bursts of energy, colour and drama.
Punk's torch flares into life and singes the fringes of England.
Mary George bears witness and burns brighter still: she is more
memorable than even the extraordinary events around her, and the
reader will find it devastatingly hard to leave her company at the
end of this exceptional debut about growing up under the shadow of
an unknowable, inescapable small-town mystery.
Iris, a museum conservator in her late forties, is separating from her
husband while bringing up two daughters.
Raif is a stalled academic, as uncertain of the past as he is of the
future, whose girlfriend is about to move in with him.
When Iris and Raif first meet by chance, Iris suddenly turns away and
starts to run. She is running from what this encounter has woken in her.
In the City of Love's Sleep is a contemporary story about what it means
to fall in love in middle age. It charts the steps two people take
towards one another and what it means to have taken those steps
before.
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Poems (Paperback)
Noshi Gillani; Translated by Lavinia Greenlaw, Nukhbah Langah
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R140
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Lavinia Greenlaw's selection from Morris's Icelandic Journal ('the
best book of travel written by an English poet', and the least
known) is interposed with her own 'questions of travel', which
follow the footprints of Morris's prose, responding to its surfaces
and undercurrents, extending its horizons. The result is a new and
composite work, which brilliantly explores our conflicted reasons
for not staying at home.
One of the most prestigious awards for the short story has reached
its eleventh year. Hugely successful, the BBC National Short Story
Award, in partnership with Booktrust, awards GBP15,000 to the
winning author, with GBP3000 going to the runner-up.
The University of East Anglia is proud to announce its new
anthologies of work from the prose (including life writing), poetry
and scriptwriting strands from their world-renowned creative
writing MA.
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