Minsk (edition 2004)

by Lavinia Greenlaw

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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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Title:	Minsk
Authors:	Lavinia Greenlaw
Info:	Faber and Faber (2004), Edition: New Ed, Paperback, 80 pages
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2000s (2) 2005 (1) a way ahead of the cold. Even the cells refuse to talk to one another. As black and white as a two-hour wait on the kerb of a six-lane arterial road (1) and those that we believe to be missing from our lives. Greenlaw's restless (1) British poetry (2) contemporary poetry (2) crate30 (1) England (1) English (1) female author (1) for the last bus and its overload to accelerate past out of its own well-oiled backsplash. (1) From the London Zoo to an Essex village and the Arctic Circle (1) Greenlaw explores elements of place-the child-hood landscapes we leave behind (1) in a secondhand straw-coloured Dior coat (1) inquisitive tone builds to make Minsk a hypnotic collection from one of the leading poets of her generation. Camel Hair Every few years it becomes a question of backbone. Anhedonia (1) Language: English (1) New Generation poets (1) not love of winter but a loss of the feel of the world (1) PBS Recommendation (1) poet on the radio (1) poetry (27) Poets & Poetry (1) read 2005 (1) read in 2008 (1) read in 2012 (1) scientists (1) signed (1) those we travel toward (1) UK poetry (1) university library (1)

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Deeply unsettling, pushing towards experimental, poetry of place. Some of the experiments (the long poem with all the gods) are mannered and unsuccessful, but others - the Norway sequence, and the London zoo sequence -- are arresting. Not her best, but worth the puzzling out. (

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Costa Book Awards (Winner – Poetry – 2003)

Poetry Book Society Choice and Recommendation (Recommendation – 2003.3)

T. S. Eliot Prize (Shortlist – 2003)

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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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