THE BUILT MOMENT

Lavinia Greenlaws last collection, The Casual Perfect (2011), focused on the achievement of the provisional. The Built Moment exp lores what we build out of the provisional: beginnings and endings, arrivals and departures, and the moments we fix as memories, fix ing too their joy and pain.The first section, The Sea is an Edge and an Ending, is a sequence of poems about her fathers dementia and his disappearance into the present tense. It is not a narrative of illness so much as a meditation on the metaphysics of memory and loss. Wha...[Read more]