Night Photograph Av Lavinia Greenlaw

<p>Galileo''s wife, a young woman dying of radium poisoning, the first dog in space, a strangely obsessed concert pianist, an early beneficiary of plastic surgery, and a Russian boy whose adventures are sadly limited by the immature powers of the child who has conjured him up are just some of the figures encompassed by Lavinia Greenlaw''s imagination.<br><br>The poet''s level gaze as she contemplates the more bizarre aspects of science and of human behaviour lends further distinction to this, her first collection.</p>