Minsk

Minsk is Lavinia Greenlaw´s third collection, and the first since the title poem of A World Where News Travelled Slowly won the Forward Prize for the year´s finest poem of 1997. From London Zoo to an Essex village and the Arctic Circle, Greenlaw explores questions of place - the childhood landscapes we leave behind, those we travel towards, and those like ‘Minsk’ which we believe to be missing from our lives. Greenlaw´s restless, inquisitive tone builds to make Minsk a hypnotic collection from one of the leading poets of her generation.