Lavinia Greenlaw's Selected Poems provides a timely retrospective on thirty years of highly distinctive poetic output. The selection draws on five collections to date and from her free translation of Troilus and Criseyde.

Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London. She has published five collections of poetry with Faber. Minsk (2003) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes; A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde (2014) was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. Her novels include In the City of Love's Sleep (2018) and her non-fiction includes The Importance of Music to Girls (2007) and The Vast Extent: On Seeing and Not Seeing Further (2024).