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Some Answers Without Questions (2021)
The Irish Times Review by Brian Dillon
Observer Review
The Herald Extract
The Week - Lavinia Greenlaw: my five best books
The Built Moment (2019)
Guardian Review - Review by Sarah Crown in The Guardian
BBC Radio 4 Front Row - On The Built Moment, writing about dementia
Audiobook - Audiobook read by the author
In the City of Love’s Sleep (2018)
BBC Radio 4 Open Book - A conversation with Mariella Frostrup about In the City of Love’s Sleep
Observer Review - Review by Kate Kellaway in The Observer
Guardian Review - Review by Stevie Davies in The Guardian
Audiobook - Audiobook read by Rebecca Calder
The Sea is an Edge and an Ending (2016)
Short Film - A short film written and directed by Lavinia Greenlaw
BBC Radio 4 Feature - ‘The Sea is an Edge and an Ending’ poem sequence about dementia
The Times Feature - Memory: selected artworks in The Times
PETER PAN – OPERA (2015)
The Times Review - Review by Richard Morrison in The Times
The Times Interview - Interview by Neil Fisher in The Times
A Double Sorrow (2014)
Telegraph interview - With Charlotte Runcie in The Telegraph
Guardian Review - Review by Fiona Sampson in The Guardian
BBC Radio 4 The Echo Chamber - On rewriting Chaucer BBC Radio 4 The Echo Chamber
Audio Obscura (2011)
An award-winning immersive soundwork commissioned by Artangel
Soundcloud - Audio Obscura on Soundcloud
Guardian Feature - On Audio Obscura, The Guardian
Ted Hughes Award - Winning the Ted Hughes Award, The Guardian
THE CASUAL PERFECT (2011)
Sunday Times - Poetry Books of the Year
Guardian Review - Review by Sean O’Brien, The Guardian
The Times Review - Review by Alan Brownjohn in The Times
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour - Lavinia Greenlaw joins BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour
The Importance of Music to Girls (2007)
Observer Interview - Interview with Alex Clark in The Observer
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour - Lavinia Greenlaw on her memoir
Sunday Times - Review by Caitlin Moran in the Sunday Times
Guardian Review - Review by Polly Samson in The Guardian
Sunday Times - On Robert Wyatt singing ‘At Last I Am Free’ in the Sunday Times
The Times - The Times Christmas Choice
An Irresponsible Age (2006)
Guardian Review - Review by Jem Poster in The Guardian
Observer Review - Review by Ruth Scurr in The Observer
Independent on Sunday Review - Interview with Marianne Brace in Independent on Sunday
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour - On An Irresponsible Age
The Times Review - Review in The Times
Sunday Times Review - Review by Hugo Barnacle in The Sunday Times
Minsk (2003)
Guardian Review - Review by William Wootten in The Guardian
The Times Review - Review in The Times
The Times Review - Frieda Hughes on ‘The Last Postcard’ in The Times
MARY GEORGE OF ALLNORTHOVER (2001)
London Review of Books Review - Review by Dinah Birch in London Review of Books
A WORLD WHERE NEWS TRAVELLED SLOWLY (1997)
Independent Review - Review by Maggie O’Farrell in The Independent
London Review of Books Review - Review by John Redmond in London Review of Books
NIGHT PHOTOGRAPH (1993)
London Review of Books Review - Review by James Wood in the London Review of Books
Independent Review - Review by William Scammell in The Independent
The Times - Classic Read (2016)
CONVERSATIONS
Conversation with Charles Avery (2020)
A conversation about love (2019)
Conversation with Carrie Brownstein (2015)
Conversation with Mary Anne Hobbs (2015)
Reading and Conversation with Cordelia Borchardt (2015)
On Titian at the National Gallery (2015)
CRITICISM AND ESSAYS
On the Madison Square Garden Diana (2021)
David Farrier’s Future Fossils (2020)
The Vast Extent: on seeing and not seeing further (2019)
Pamela Hansford Johnson (2019)
On growing up in Essex (2019)
Hannah Sullivan (2018)
‘The Darkest Place in England’ (2016)
BBC Radio 4 Front Row Interview - Shortlisted for the National Short Story Award
David Hepworth’s Uncommon People (2017)
Joy Division (2015)
On the 2015 Faroe Islands solar eclipse (2015)
Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde (2014)
Eva Hesse (2014)
Tracey Thorn’s Bedsit Disco Queen (2013)
On watching television (2013)
On opera (2003)
Jamie McKendrick’s Ink Stone (2003)
Nick Hornby’s 31 Songs (2003)
Elizabeth Bishop’s paintings (1997)
The life of Emily Tennyson (1996)
Tobias Wolff’s The Night in Question (1996)
RADIO
The Refusal of Place (2021)
BBC Radio 3 Essay - Celebrating the joys of Essex
On travelling after dark (2019)
Five Fever Tales (2016)
BBC Radio 4 - Drama about the origins and treatment of malaria
Peter Pan (2015)
BBC Radio 3 - Opera
Reimagining the City: London (2015)
The Icelandic Journals (2013)
BBC Radio 4 - Drama about William Morris in Iceland
The Namer of Clouds (2013)
BBC Radio 4 - Documentary on Luke Howard
This Dreaming Sea (2013)
BBC Radio 3 - Proms commission for Tristan and Isolde
We are watching something terrible happening (2013)
BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award
On Ezra Pound’s ‘A Few Don’ts’ (2012)
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse (2010)
BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial starring Derek Jacobi
Dusty Answer by Rosamund Lehmann (2010)
Guilt (2008)
The Childhood Landscape of Elizabeth Bishop (2007)
POEMS
Four poems (2018)
Two poems (2018)
On the Mountain (2017)
My father cannot stop (2016)
Actaeon (2011)
English LullabY (2011)
Three poems (2009)
The Long Day Closes (2009)
The Last Postcard: after Malevich (2007)
Zombies (2003)
Three poems (1998)
Four poems (1997)
Late Sun (1997)
The New Yorker - Link coming soon
Millefiori (1995)
Invention (1994)
Thanksgiving at Ghost Ranch (1993)
The New Yorker - Link coming soon