A World Where News Travelled Slowly (Faber poetry) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

A World Where News Travelled Slowly (Faber poetry) Book

Lavinia Greenlaw's follow-up to her well-received debut, Night Photograph, is a thought-provoking and memorable exploration of missed connections, disasters narrowly averted, and occasional glimpses of beauty. All of these themes converge in images, as when "dying wasps / make drunken passes at my hair. / They are drawn to glass, as air, / and cannot tell." The poems are driven by the gap between what can be known and what can be said, as in "Landscape," in which Greenlaw's haiku-influenced imagery wraps itself around an ineffable moment of shared experience: "Aroused by emptiness, / you push a hand inside my jeans. / The wind in the three-hundred-year-old / Lebanon cedars / makes a noise like nothing living." Read More

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  • Product Description

    The central theme of Greenlaw's second collection is the unpredictable act of communication, from the mechanical to the miraculous. Other poems are concerned with attempts at preservation - plundered relics, the stately home, an iron lung. The title poem won the Forward Prize in 1998.

  • 0571191606
  • 9780571191604
  • Lavinia Greenlaw
  • 17 November 1997
  • Faber and Faber
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 64
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