Lavinia is a brilliant poet and a dear friend, and I was so touched to be a tiny part of her debut poetry collection book launch! It took place at Burley Fisher, and her book with Prototype publishing - Artifice, buyable and highly recommended here https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/artifice/ - is fantastic. It’s deft, funny, complex, clever, playful, experimental. And in it is Lavinia’s warmth too. She is so supportive of so many others and this night captured the feeling so many have for her. It was a really friendly, kind, generous event, emanating from the person it celebrated.
For my own part, I took youtube videos of Lavinia performing, from events I had invited her to, over 10 over the years, and then copied the given subtitles that youtube had conjured. I lightly edited and read three of these.