Lavinia Greenlaw
Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London, where she has lived for most of her life. Her teenage years were spent in an Essex village. She has published six 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 latest collection, The Built Moment, was published in February 2019.
Lavinia Greenlaw on Granta.com
Poetry | The Online Edition
Metamorphosis: Poems Inspired by Titian
Various Contributors
‘The beasts of the forest drove me out. / The villagers barred their doors. / The gods turned the page.’
Poetry | The Online Edition
Saturday Night
Lavinia Greenlaw
‘Do they dance for those creatures / whose unmade selves / come unbuttoning out of the dark?’
Poetry | The Online Edition
The Joy of Difficulty
Lavinia Greenlaw
‘did you breathe differently / as if equipped with an aqualung’