Isabelle Baafi & Lavinia Greenlaw: Chaotic Good

<p>Isabelle Baafi, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for her pamphlet <em>Ripe</em>, constructs her debut collection <a href="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/chaotic-good-isabelle-baafi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Chaotic Good</em></a> (Faber) around the story of an escape from a toxic marriage. ‘<em>Chaotic Good</em> is a debut of amazing endurance,’ writes poet Will Harris. ‘Its formal pressures create a kind of kaleidoscopic intensity that – with each turn of the chamber – brings newly beautiful and painful shapes into focus.’</p><br><p>Isabelle Baafi read from her work in the company of Lavinia Greenlaw, whose most recent book is the essay collection <a href="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/the-vast-extent-on-seeing-and-not-seeing-further-lavinia-greenlaw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Vast Extent</em></a>.</p><br><p>Find more events a the Bookshop: <a href="https://lrb.me/eventspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/eventspod</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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