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Minsk (Hardcover)

by Lavinia Greenlaw (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 69 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (18 Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 057121780X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571217809
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.4 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 297,036 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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From her Essex heartlands to the Arctic Circle Greenlaw brings her characteristically sharp eye to bear with a series of meditations that are both precisely observed and lyrically memorable.


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Minsk is Lavinia Greenlaw’s third collection, and the first since the title poem of A World Where News Travelled Slowly won the Forward Prize for the year’s finest poem of 1997. From London Zoo to an Essex village and the Arctic Circle, Greenlaw explores questions of place – the childhood landscapes we leave behind, those we travel towards, and those like ‘Minsk’ which we believe to be missing from our lives. Greenlaw’s restless, inquisitive tone builds to make Minsk a hypnotic collection from one of the leading poets of her generation.
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5.0 out of 5 stars her best yet, 1 Dec 2003
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Lavinia Greenlaw's previous two collections have shown her to be among the most interesting and gifted poets in Britain, but this collection is outstanding. Some seem to be inspired by her childhood; others by observing animals in London Zoo ("An arrangement of parts, the giraffe/carries himself off, all height, no wieght"). The vigour and wit of her imagery (Blackwater starts "Where the coastline doubles up on itself/as if punched in the gut by the god Meander") is matched by a thoughtful melancholy. The most powerful is The Flight of Geryon, inspired by Canto XVll of Dante's Inferno, which becomes an extended metaphor for the terror implicit in trusting someone. The latter poems describe a period in the Arctic Circle. A striking collection, dominated by themes of travel, loss and hope, it has already been short-listed for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. It deserves to win.
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