A screening of Lavinia Greenlaw's The Sea is an Edge and Ending follows a reading from the poet's latest collection The Built Moment. 

In The Built Moment, Greenlaw masterfully demonstrates how, as we get older and death becomes more a part of life, what we build and what we break out of become more important than ever. This new collection of poetry departs from the themes approached in The Sea in an Edge and an Ending and includes works that are featured in the film.

About The Sea is an Edge and an Ending

A short film investigating what it means to lose your memory and disappear into the present tense, the framework of The Sea in an Edge and an Ending is a sequence she wrote about her father’s death from Alzheimer’s. The film focuses on what it means for your sense of self to come loose and for the past to float free. It carries echoes of Shakespeare’s Tempest in its study of a man under a kind of spell, whose child must observe his strange and terrifying liberation.