A World Where News Travelled Slowly

(Faber & Faber 1997)

The central theme of Greenlaw's second collection is the unpredictable act of communication, from the mechanical to the miraculous. Other poems are concerned with attempts at preservation - plundered relics, the stately home, an iron lung.
The title poem won the Forward Prize in 1998.

‘Greenlaw’s control is formidable; in this volume there is scarcely a line or stress out of place.’
Elizabeth Lowry, TLS

‘Anxiety, love, desire and guilt pulse through her language … I hope ours is a world in which news of this book travels fast.’
Maggie O’Farrell,
Independent on Sunday

‘This is a beautiful, intelligent, often sexy book that never shows off; it appreciates with each rereading.’
Robert Potts, The Guardian