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Lavinia Greenlaw

Lavinia Greenlaw has published three books of poems, Night Photograph (1993), A World Where News Travelled Slowly (1997) and Minsk (2003), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes. Her two novels are Mary George of Allnorthover (2001) and An Irresponsible Age (2006). In 2008 she published a memoir, The Importance of Music to Girls. Lavinia lives in London and teaches part time at UEA in Norwich.

Poems translated by Lavinia Greenlaw

• A Change of Season
• Can Someone Bring Me My Entire Being?
• How Hard It Is to Manage Life
• I Say Nothing Anywhere
• Insight
• Kept On Compromising on Life
• Last Conversation with the Sky
• Please Bring a Token Home from Each Journey
• The Breeze Rewrites
• The Flower is Torn at the Heart
• The Wind, Too, Can Change Direction
• There Was a Heart that Burnt Out: Light
• There Was a Time When I Loved Alone
• This Prisoner Breathes
• To Catch Butterflies
• You Know Only Dreams