A wall can talk to us April 18, 2011: I’m moving house tomorrow and while it’s a happy occasion, it has happened very fast. I'm leaving the square mile in which I was born and where I've lived for thirty of my years. The other day I was walking home (a word that’s become underlined and italicised, quotation- and question-marked in both thought and speech) pondering the [...] by Lavinia Greenlaw

Weights and Measures April 13, 2011: A wall near a poetry translation workshop I recently attended in Fes. Catalan, Slovenian, Swiss, Arabic, French. We passed our days like tailors or engineers, in a haze of geometric abstraction. by Lavinia Greenlaw

The Concise Dictionary of Dress April 27, 2010: BRASH Confident; mistakable. CREASED The line designed by use. PRETENTIOUS Something pretending to be something that it is. REVEALING The performance of the unsustainable moment. SHARP Addressed. Years ago, I was given a residency in the kind of place that knows how to throw a party. They gave one for me, and invited, [...] by Lavinia Greenlaw

The ordinary sky April 23, 2010: There were high slow-travelling Clouds in the sky that threw large Masses of Shade upon some of the Mountains. We walked backwards & forwards between home & Olliffs till I was tired William kindled & began to write the poem. We carried Cloaks into the orchard & sate a while there I left him & he nearly finished the poem. I was [...] by Lavinia Greenlaw

The Hush House (for Ange Mlinko) April 16, 2010: He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds, Surprizes, varies, and conceals the Bounds. (more...) by Lavinia Greenlaw

The Booth of Truth (for Daisy Fried) April 13, 2010: Do you sometimes feel you haven’t reached your full potential? Are you caring and thoughtful? Are you sometimes relaxed and confident in company – but other times shy and repressed? (more...) by Lavinia Greenlaw

On looking at thyme under a microscope, the scientist reaches for a lemon April 3, 2010: ‘the Grain affords a very pretty Object for the Microscope, namely, a Dish of Lemmons plac’d in a very little room.’ Robert Hooke (1635-1703) by Lavinia Greenlaw

A broader question December 31, 2008: G. And what have you found in Iceland? C. What have we found? More copy, more surface, Vignettes as they call them, dead flowers in an album – The harmoniums in the farms, the fine-bread and pancakes, The pot of ivy trained across the window, Children in gumboots, girls in black berets. R. And dead craters and angled crags. Louis MacNeice, [...] by Lavinia Greenlaw

Recessive festive December 21, 2008: by Lavinia Greenlaw

Hevenyssh December 16, 2008: Like the growth of crystals: a formative will and the impossibility of adopting any other mode. (more...) by Lavinia Greenlaw