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William Morris in Iceland: Questions of Travel

William Morris in Iceland: Questions of Travel

by Lavinia Greenlaw (Author)

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Synopsis

Lavinia Greenlaw's selection from Morris's Icelandic Journal ('the best book of travel written by an English poet', and the least known) is interposed with her own 'questions of travel', which follow the footprints of Morris's prose, responding to its surfaces and undercurrents, extending its horizons. The result is a new and composite work, which brilliantly explores our conflicted reasons for not staying at home.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 160
 Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Published: 28 Apr 2011
ISBN 10: 1907903186
ISBN 13: 9781907903182

Media Reviews
Morris's journals...are precious and unique because they are so simply and beautifully written with the informed sense of wonder of a deeply learned and sophisticated man. No one except Ruskin has ever put the case for beauty with such vehemence and clarity. --Ian McQueen, The Guardian At a time of endless half-truths and moral shilly-shallying, Morris's eccentric integrity shines out. --Fiona MacCarthy Greenlaw has brilliantly found a new form for writing about Morris, and for this we can only be grateful. --Tony Pinkney, William Morris Unbound Blog The best book of travel written by an English poet is William Morris's Icelandic Journal. --Geoffrey Grigson
Author Bio
Lavinia Greenlaw's interest in perception, optical technologies and landscape led to her being the first artist in residence at London's Science Museum. She has published five collections of poetry as well as fiction and non-fiction including The Importance of Music to Girls. Her immersive sound-work, Audio Obscura, a study of interrupted perception, won the 2011 Ted Hughes Award. In 2016, she wrote and directed a short film, The Sea is an Edge and an Ending, about her father's dementia.