Prof Lavinia Greenlaw
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Professor of Creative Writing |
L dot Greenlaw at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2784 |
Arts Building 1.29 |
Biography
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), which won France’s Prix du PremierRoman Etranger, and An Irresponsible Age (2006). She has also collaborated with the photographic artist Garry Fabian Miller on Thoughts of a Night Sea (2002), and edited Signs and Humours: the poetry of medicine (2007) for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She has recently published a memoir, The Importance of Music to Girls.
Her awards include an Arts Council of England Writers’ Award, a Forward Prize and a fellowship from NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts). She has held residencies at the Science Museum, the Royal Festival Hall, Aldeburgh Festival and the Royal Society of Medicine, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has taught writing for many years, most recently on the MA programme at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Her work for BBC radio includes programmes about light in the Arctic and the Baltic, the solstices and equinoxes, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, and Dutch landscape painting. She has also written and adapted several dramas for radio, including Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day.
She has written opera libretti, including Hamelin and Minsk for the composer Ian Wilson as well as song texts, including the cycle Slow Passage, Low Prospect commissioned by the Aldeburgh Festivalfor the composer Richard Baker.
Career
Lavinia Greenlaw is a Professor of Creative Writing and Convenor of the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry). She has published three books of poems, most recently Minsk, which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Prize, and two novels: Mary George of Allnorthover, which won France's Prix du Premier Roman Etranger, and An Irresponsible Age. Her first book of non-fiction, The Importance of Music to Girls, was published in 2007. Her work for radio includes programmes about the Arctic and Baltic, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, and Dutch landscape painting, as well as several dramas.
Key Research Interests
I am currently working on a version of Troilus and Criseyde for Radio 4, a libretto for the composer Richard Ayres commissioned by Stuttgart Opera, and a collection of poems.
My areas of interest are writing poetry and fiction, contemporary British poetry, image-making and perception.
I supervise critical-creative PhDs (poetry and prose).
Teaching Interests
Article
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2005) Garry Fabian Miller. V&A Museum magazine.
Book Section
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2007) On punk rock and not being a girl. In: Listen Again. Duke University Press, US.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2005) To town came quiet. In: Last & Lost: the disappearing places of Europe. Suhrkamp, Germany.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2002) Big brass bed: Bob Dylan and delay. In: Do You Mr Jones? Bob Dylan and the Professors. Chatto & Windus.
Book
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2011) The Casual Perfect. Faber & Faber.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2011) Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. Notting Hill Editions.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2011) Audio Obscura (with photos by Julian Abrams). Full Circle Editions.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2009) Musikens betydelse för flickor (Swedish edition of The Importance of Music for Girls). Alfabeta.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2008) The Importance of Music to Girls (reprint). Farrar, Straus & Giroux, US.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2008) An Irresponsible Age (reprint). Joëlle Losfeld/Gallimard, France.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2007) The Importance of Music to Girls. Faber and Faber, p. 195. ISBN 0571230288
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2007) Signs and Humours: the poetry of medicine. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2006) An Irresponsible Age. Fourth Estate, p. 328. ISBN 9780007156306
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2006) Minsk (reprint). DuMont Verlag, Germany.
Greenlaw, Lavinia and Habila, Helen (2006) New Writing 14. British Council/Granta.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2005) Minsk (reprint). Harcourt Brace, US.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2003) Minsk. Faber and Faber, p. 69. ISBN 0571222714
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2003) Quand Mary marcha sur l'eau. Joëlle Losfeld/Gallimard, France.
Greenlaw, Lavinia and Fabian Miller, Garry (2003) Thoughts of a Night Sea. Merrill.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2001) Mary George of Allnorthover. Flamingo, p. 320. ISBN 9780007204595
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2001) Die Vision der Mary George. DuMont Verlag, Germany.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2001) Mary George van Allnorthover (translation). De Bezige Bij, Netherlands.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2001) Mary George of Allnorthover (alternative print). Houghton Mifflin, US.
Show/Exhibition
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2011) Audio Obscura (a sound work). [Show/Exhibition]
Other
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2011) Radio drama "The Chess Factory". Radio 4 Afternoon Play.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2010) Radio drama "Dusty Answer". Woman's Hour Serial, Radio 4.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2010) Radio drama "The Glass Bead Game". Classic Serial, Radio 4.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2009) Radio play adaptation of Troilus and Criseyde for Radio 4 Classic Serial. UNSPECIFIED.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2007) Short Story "The earth we stood on". Financial Times.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2007) Radio drama "The Umbrella". Radio 4 Afternoon Play.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2004) Radio drama "The Innocence of Radium". Women's Hour Serial, Radio 4.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2004) Radio drama "The Kamikaze Handbook". Afternoon Play, Radio 4.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2003) Short Story "Misty Crossing". Radio 4.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2003) Radio drama "Night and Day", Virgia Woolf. Classic Serial, Radio 4.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2002) Short Story "The Carol Singer". Radio 4.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2002) Radio drama "The Blood of Strangers", Frank Huyler. Friday Play, Radio 4.
Greenlaw, Lavinia (2001) Radio drama documentary "Remembering Mum". Radio 4.
