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John Greening
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British poet (The Interpretation of Owls: Poems 1977-2022 ed. Gardner, Baylor UP). Also editor of anthologies & editions of Blunden, Grigson, Crichton Smith, a new selected UA Fanthorpe & a forthcoming Matthew Arnold. Not forgetting a Rilke 'New Poems'
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Reviews of new #poetry by @mcrucefix.bsky.social
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John F. Deane
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Reviews – The High Window
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November 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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My new review essay of collections by @betarish.bsky.social, @tomsastry.bsky.social, Michael Vince, and Kieron Winn is published today in Wild Court. Find out why I like them so much: wildcourt.co.uk/a-hobby-of-exi….
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October 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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“I was drawn, surely, to the unusual combination of spiritual reach and humour, as well as recognising the poet’s extraordinary gift for characterisation in miniature”

— @greeningpoet.bsky.social on discovering George Mackay Brown
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October 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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A taster of my forthcoming #Rilke, appearing from Baylor UP next month. This is courtesy of David Cameron at 'Into Poetry' who provides a commentary. One of the best known Neue Gedichte

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The Carousel (Rilke) by John Greening
The Carousel Jardin du Luxembourg A roof, a shadow, round and round it spinsfor a little while, this brightly coloured bandof horses from a hesitating landthat’s going, gone. Some do have more than re...
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October 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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This free online poetry event is at 6 UK time today
greeningpoet.bsky.social John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · Sep 14
Free online launch of John Greening’s new book about poetry, featuring Dana Gioia, Penelope Shuttle, Hilary Davies, Stuart Henson. Register here. 6pm UK time, Tuesday 23rd September
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September 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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With Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social of @bayloruniversity.bsky.social after our panel discussion on the poetry of John Betjeman. We were joined by Seamus Perry and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst for an event in #Oxford, part of the Betjeman Society's symposium
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September 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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An extract from ‘A High Calling’ by John Greening – Wild Court
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September 20, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Free online launch of John Greening’s new book about poetry, featuring Dana Gioia, Penelope Shuttle, Hilary Davies, Stuart Henson. Register here. 6pm UK time, Tuesday 23rd September
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September 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The glitter of water and the wake…
Heading for University in Aberdeen.
It’s an autumn morning. I am seventeen…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “Aberdeen University 1945–49 (1)”
in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, ed. @greeningpoet.bsky.social
@carcanet.bsky.social 2021
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Aberdeen University 1945–49 (1) by Iain Crichton Smith The glitter of water and the wake… Heading for University in Aberdeen. It’s an autumn morning. I am seventeen. Above the Isle of Skye the dawn’s a flag of red infuriate ore. I see the train for the first time ever steaming from the Kyle beyond the screaming seagulls, in the smell of salt and herring. There’s a tall sad crane. The landscape, rich, harmonious, unwinds its perfect symmetry: not the barren stone and vague frail fences I have always known. I hold my Homer steady in my hand. All day we travel and at last dismount at the busy station of that sparkling town. A beggar with black glasses sitting down on the hard stone holds out his cap. I count the pennies in it. Should I freely give? Or being more shameful than himself refrain? His definite shadow is the day’s black stain. How in such open weakness learn to live? I turn away, the money in my hand, profusely sweating, in that granite blaze. Unknown, unlooked at, I pick up my case. Everything’s glittering and transient.
September 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Good to find The Threepenny Review in the post today. Poems by Robert Pinsky, Okwudili Nebeolisa, Jane Zwart and others, including one by me - about translating Rilke and recalling an incident from when I lived in Mannheim
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September 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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This online launch coming up in September - should be fun
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greeningpoet.bsky.social John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · Aug 29
Hilary Davies, Dana Gioia, Stuart Henson and Penelope Shuttle will join me for this online launch of my book of essays, poems, pictures and ruminations on poetry (from Renard Press). Register here for this free event on 23 September

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An evening of poetry with John Greening and Stuart Henson, Hilary Davies, Penelope Shuttle and Dana Gioia
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September 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Such a pleasure to launch Hilary Davies’ enchanting new collection Compass Light at the wonderful @owlbookshop.bsky.social last night. Huge thanks to the angels at the Owl - not only for hosting but also for this lovely pic of Hilary!

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September 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Charles I returned for a third visit to Little Gidding today, more a windswept king than a broken one. It's 400 years since Nicholas Ferrar established his community there.
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August 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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It says much for the power of Gillian Allnutt's Lode that my compass, carried in the same pocket, had reversed its polarity by the end of the day
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August 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Hilary Davies, Dana Gioia, Stuart Henson and Penelope Shuttle will join me for this online launch of my book of essays, poems, pictures and ruminations on poetry (from Renard Press). Register here for this free event on 23 September

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-green...

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#BookSky
John Greening and Friends
An evening of poetry with John Greening and Stuart Henson, Hilary Davies, Penelope Shuttle and Dana Gioia
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August 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Fascinating. Elgar hasn't really made his presence felt in film and drama, though there was Ken Russell & I think David Pownall did a play about him. There's a novel too, I seem to recall: Gerontius, perhaps the basis for this?
diehoren.bsky.social Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · Aug 25
What role should music play in our lives? A new film by Nicholas Hytner, premiering in Toronto next week, shows a Yorkshire choirmaster's struggle to stage a production of Elgar's 'Dream of Gerontius' amidst the upheaval of the First World War.

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The Choral
Starring Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes (TIFF ’24’s <em>Conclave</em>), this heart-soaring period drama from director Nicholas Hytner (<em>The Madness of King George</em>) tells the story of young men ra...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Found in a charity shop. Almost half a century old but full of fascinating things, some of them now quite familiar- eg Tomlinson's opera parody,Julian Orde's Conjurors, Davie & Wright on Sisson + Sisson himself - alas no more 'a powerful presence in...English poetry' @pnreview.bsky.social
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August 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Always a delight to see the Horse peering at me from a jiffy bag. This issue is very special - not least a long piece by Edna Longley on Michael's poetry and a heartening reminder of Kathleen Raine's importance by Kirsten MacQuarrie
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August 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Charlie Louth's 20 minute introduction to the New Poems of #Rilke is well worth watching & his book on the poet invaluable. My rhymed, metrical translations of Neue Gedichte (some 200 poems) will be published in November
by Baylor UniversityPress @baylorpress.bsky.social

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Oxford German Classic 2025: Introduction to Rilke’s Neue Gedichte
YouTube video by Oxford German Network
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August 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Younger daughter's piece in The i Paper about writing children’s books
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August 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Well this is a bit different from a poem in a magazine, and should smell rather better - much though I love the scent of freshly opened pages
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Nightpiece by John Greening | Sandalwood Rose Poetry Reed Diffuser | Urban Ganges
Nightpiece Who ever heard of a pleasant dream?~ Robinson Jeffers Once again, winding them in and aboutthe bare branches of our dead apple treeacross the dormant cherry and into anerupting hazel, I thr...
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July 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Stuart Henson launches this collection of haiku in Huntingdon library this Wednesday. Refreshments and live music. Free.
July 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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This collection of mini essays, musings, recollections, anecdotes and new poems is something I've been working on for a few years. @renardpress have made a beautiful job of it (as they did the anthology Contraflow)
renardpress.com Renard Press @renardpress.com · Jul 18
Last bit of #bookpost for the weekend, and it’s a real pleasure to see this glorious hybrid book navigating poetry with @greeningpoet.bsky.social in print. ✈️

(Signed copies available in limited supply.)

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July 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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We've finished spotlighting our new issue! Read the whole thing here... badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-1
Issue twenty-one — Bad Lilies
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July 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM