Lavinia Greenlaw

Lavinia Greenlaw has worked in publishing and arts administration, and is now a freelance writer, broadcaster and critic, and lectures in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College.  She has garnered considerable acclaim for her two previous poetry collections and her novel, Mary George of Allnorthover.

Minsk by Lavinia Greenlaw
Faber and Faber

Minsk takes the reader through various enclosures at London Zoo via an Essex village and an infamous cocktail, and concludes in the Arctic Circle, where winter sets in ‘like a drink of glass’. Throughout, Greenlaw explores notions of place – the childhood landscapes we leave behind, those we travel towards, and those like ‘Minsk’ that we imagine to be missing from our lives.