Lavinia Greenlaw meets Charles Avery

Published: March 12, 2020, 10:20 a.m.

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Lavinia Greenlaw has published six collections of poetry, including The Built Moment which reflected on her father\\u2019s dementia. Her novels include In the City of Love\\u2019s Sleep, about a relationship sparked by a chance encounter in a museum. She also writes about art and music, including a book on how pop shaped her young identity. She was the first artist in residence at the Science Museum, and her immersive sound work, Audio Obscura, won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.

Charles Avery grew up on the island of Mull. For more than 15 years, he has worked on a single project \\u2013 the invention of an imaginary island, creating its people, settlements, landscapes, forests and creatures through paint, sculpture and text. The main town is called Onomatopoeia, and it\\u2019s rumoured that the island is home to an elusive beast called the Noumenon.

Producer Clare Walker

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