Lavinia Greenlaw has published three books of poems, most recently Minsk, which was shortlisted for the Forward, T S Eliot and Whitbread Poetry Prizes. She has also published a novel, Mary George of Allnorthover, which won France’s Prix du Premier Roman, and a collaboration with the photographic artist Garry Fabian Miller, Thoughts of a Night Sea.  She lectures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. In 2000, she was awarded a NESTA fellowship in order to pursue her interest in optical technologies and the history of perception. Her work for BBC radio includes programmes about the Arctic and Baltic, the solstices and equinoxes, and an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day. She wrote the libretto for Ian Wilson’s chamber opera Hamelin and is currently working on a second opera with the Russian composer Elena Langer, as well as a second novel.