Event 28 | Lavinia Greenlaw | The Vast Extent

£12.00

Lavinia Greenlaw – The Vast Extent – On Seeing and Not Seeing Further

Lavinia Greenlaw is one of the country’s most celebrated poets, novelists and memoirists and The Vast Extent is a beautiful and ingenious consolidation of a thirty-year body of work. In a series of essays, she presents a record of how thought builds and ideas emerge – aligning art and scientific scrutiny and exploring subjects as broad as early photography, boredom, seasickness, wonder, mountains and mice. Lavinia will also read from her Selected Poems which have established her as one of the most perceptive and original poets of her generation.

in conversation with Caroline Montagu

1 Course Dinner £18

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When: Thursday 7th November 2024 @ 6.30 pm

Where: Sladers Yard

Sponsored by: Sybella and Paul Zisman

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Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London. She has published five collections of poetry with Faber. Minsk (2003) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes; A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde (2014) was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. Her novels include In the City of Love’s Sleep (2018) and her non-fiction includes The Importance of Music to Girls (2007) and The Vast Extent: On Seeing and Not Seeing Further (2024).

Caroline Montagu has had a varied career. She and her husband John ran Mapperton for some 30 years. She was also a writer on Saudi Arabia, visiting the country two or three times a year for more than 30 years. She’s served on various committees over the period and now lives mostly in Dorset.

Event 28

Thursday 7th November 2024 | 6.30 pm

Event 28 | Lavinia Greenlaw | The Vast Extent

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