John Greening was born in London in 1954 and studied at the universities of Swansea, Exeter, and Mannheim (Germany). He has taught for much of his life, and he and his wife settled in Cambridgeshire where their two daughters were born, and where they have remained. Since Westerners in 1982, Greening has published more than twenty collections of poetry, including two from Carcanet, To the War Poets (2013) and The Silence (2019), as well as a series of recent pamphlets: Achill Island Tagebuch (2019), Europa's Flight (2019), Moments Musicaux (2020), The Giddings (2021), a Post Card to (with Stuart Henson, 2021) and Omniscience (2022). He was until recently Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. He has won the Bridport Prize, the Arvon Prize, the TLS Centenary Prize and in 2018 received a Cholmondeley Award from the UK Society of Authors for services to poetry.
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Reaching the Stillness: An Introduction by the Editor Two Roads: A Preface by the Author Prelude Pilgrim Hieroglyphs Home English Flight America Wartime Eurozone Words Notes Intimations Coda An Interview with John Greening
Undoubtedly, this is a Greening cornucopia and a treasure trove for the reader who wants to dip and browse. --Kathleen McPhilemy "The High Window" Edited in consultation with the poet, this first American collection presents a poetic journey of more than forty years, and it is exceedingly well-travelled. --John Forth "London Grip"