Lavinia Greenlaw

Dec 18, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Lavinia Greenlaw

A hundred days before I met the strangerwho forced me off the roadand did not leave his nameI dreamt of walking out of a landscapeas if out of a painting –tipped from the picture by its tilting fields. I was now outside the workwatching the shadow who walked beside meindicate that I should return. Where to? The tangled woods. Brief figures rose beside the pathin encouragement or warning. When I looked on each, light was castas if they were there for me to invest.

Jan 17, 2024 | londonreviewbookshop.co.uk | Lavinia Greenlaw |Jennifer Higgie

Lavinia Greenlaw’s new book The Vast Extent is a collection of ‘exploded essays’, about light and image, sight and the unseen, covering wide territories with the scientific precision and ease of access which characterises her poetry. Greenlaw was in conversation with Jennifer Higgie, author of The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World.

Oct 13, 2023 | faber.co.uk | Tim Woodall |Matthew S. Hollis |Lavinia Greenlaw

Faber is delighted to announce that Lavinia Greenlaw has been appointed Poetry Editor. She will take up the position on 22 January, succeeding Matthew Hollis, who announced earlier in the year he was stepping back from the role. 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.