The Casual Perfect

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. The Casual Perfect by Lavinia Greenlaw is the striking new collection from the award-winning poet. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Lavinia Greenlaw
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780571278169
• ISBN: 978-0-571-27816-9
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 223 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Poetry by individual poets, Human Condition; Landscape; Language