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32 produkter
Casual Perfect
Häftad, 2013
127 kr
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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 …
On Difficulty (and Poetry)
Häftad, 2026
162 kr
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A book that uses poetry to talk about difficulty, and vice versaAs Lavinia Greenlaw readily admits, 'The idea of poetry tends to make people feel stupid, anxious or bored.' Poetry can appear to be inherently 'difficult'; our immediate impulse, to baulk or turn away. But in this wonderfully lucid …
Minsk
Häftad, 2004
166 kr
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A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONMinsk, 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 …
Irresponsible Age
Häftad, 2006
172 kr
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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 …
Mary George of Allnorthover
Häftad, 2006
177 kr
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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 …
Irresponsible Age
E-bok, 2012
96 kr
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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 …
Mary George of Allnorthover
E-bok, 2012
153 kr
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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 …
A Double Sorrow – A Version of Troilus and Criseyde
A Version of Troilus and Criseyde
Inbunden, 2026
313 kr
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The captivating love story of ill-fated Troilus and Criseyde, first popularized by Chaucer's poem in the 1380s, is one of the most enduring stories of the English language. In A Double Sorrow, award-winning poet Lavinia Greenlaw breathes fresh life into the medieval tale through a series of …
Casual Perfect
E-bok, 2011
148 kr
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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 …
Double Sorrow
Troilus and Criseyde
Häftad, 2015
139 kr
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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 …
Double Sorrow
Troilus and Criseyde
E-bok, 2014
113 kr
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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 …
Importance of Music to Girls
E-bok, 2015
121 kr
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'A rare and quite beautiful book' Observer'A poetic, evocative exploration of music and identity' Sunday Times'A wry reflection on the way in which music weaves its way in and out of childhood' Sunday TelegraphFrom the award-winning poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw comes a vivid and engaging …
Night Photograph
Häftad, 2016
166 kr
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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 …
World Where News Travelled Slowly
Häftad, 2016
142 kr
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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. …
Importance of Music to Girls
Häftad, 2017
131 kr
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'A rare and quite beautiful book' Observer'A poetic, evocative exploration of music and identity' Sunday Times'A wry reflection on the way in which music weaves its way in and out of childhood' Sunday TelegraphFrom the award-winning poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw comes a vivid and engaging …
In the City of Love's Sleep
Häftad, 2019
130 kr
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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 …
In the City of Love's Sleep
E-bok, 2018
115 kr
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This is a story about a woman and a man who meet by chance. Nothing of any importance is said, yet she suddenly turns away, leaves the room, and starts to run. She is in shock from what this man has brought back to life: an electrical affinity, a higher self, a feeling of having been woken, …
Built Moment
Häftad, 2022
151 kr
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Lavinia Greenlaw's last collection, The Casual Perfect (2011), focused on 'the achievement of the provisional'. The Built Moment explores 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
E-bok, 2019
148 kr
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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 …
Vast Extent
On Seeing and Not Seeing Further
Häftad, 2024
142 kr
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'[Greenlaw] wields her erudition lightly.' Sunday Times'Remarkable, visionary.' CELIA PAUL'Indescribably brilliant.' Daily Telegraph'Kaleidoscopic.' Guardian'A rare pleasure . . . rewarding and thought-provoking.' Irish TimesFrom the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is a …
Some Answers Without Questions
Häftad, 2023
127 kr
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'A delight: approachable, rigorous and omnivorous in its frame of reference. . . a timely, lyrical investigation into what it means to create' Observer'A pointed, svelte but diverse work' Irish TimesMy voice arose out of the desire to connect and was shaped in reaction and resistance. It became my …
Some Answers Without Questions
E-bok, 2021
106 kr
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'A delight: approachable, rigorous and omnivorous in its frame of reference. . . a timely, lyrical investigation into what it means to create' Observer'A pointed, svelte but diverse work' Irish TimesMy voice arose out of the desire to connect and was shaped in reaction and resistance. It became my …
Selected Poems
Häftad, 2024
187 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALCOTT PRIZEThis Selected Poems offers the perfect introduction to a distinguished body of work that has established Lavinia Greenlaw as one of the most perceptive and original poets of her generation. From her arresting debut, Night Photograph (1993), through five further …
Audio Obscura
Häftad, 2011
139 kr
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'Audio Obscura is more hypnotic than it first sounds - these muttered confessions might even make you miss your train...' - Clara Tait, Time Out At a railway station, everyday dramas are constantly being played out: meeting, parting, anticipating, escaping. The atmosphere is an odd mix of tension …
Chess Girls
A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation
Ljudbok, 2012
54 kr
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The emergence of the Polgar sisters in the 1970s and 80s rocked the chess world. In a heavily male dominated game, the three Hungarian girls broke record after record. The youngest, Judit, was talked of as a potential world champion. The Chess Girls is the story of their parents, Laszlo and Klara …
Questions of Travel
William Morris in Iceland
Inbunden, 2011
212 kr
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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 …
Questions of Travel
William Morris in Iceland
Häftad, 2021
126 kr
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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 …
Tonspuren
Erinnerungen an eine Jugend
E-bok, 2022
244 kr
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Musik ist mehr als Töne...Herausgerissen aus ihrem vertrauten Londoner Umfeld und ins ländliche Essex verpflanzt, entdeckt Lavinia Greenlaw, entwurzelt und einsam, zwischen Klavier-und Geigenunterricht, den abendlichen Madrigalchorproben der Mutter, Opernbesuchen mit dem Vater und Radio Luxemburg …
Wo die Liebe schläft
E-bok, 2022
300 kr
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Wie lieben wir? Und wie verändert sich die Liebe im Laufe unseres Lebens? Iris, eine Museumskonservatorin in den mittleren Vierzigern, lernt auf einem Empfang den Historiker Raif kennen. Es scheint Liebe auf den ersten Blick - und mit ihrer Begegnung stellt sich die Frage nach einem glücklichen …
