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In To the War Poets John Greening sends dispatches across the decades. In a sequence of verse letters he addresses the poets of the First World War directly, making connections yet always aware of distance: 'No larks, / just the passing of traffic.' Greening explores 'Englishness', but also, in his translations from German poets, goes beyond it. From the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial in 1939 to the security forces' shut-down of Heathrow airport in 2006, the presence or threat of conflict underlies Greening's precise, unsentimental writing.
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'So to conclude calamity in rest.' In his powerful new collection, John Greening opens lines of communication with poets of the Great War, bridging a century with heart-work of immediacy, economy and humanity. --Penelope Shuttle
Delightfully alert to connections and intersections, to historical ironies... [Greening is] a serious (but never excessively solemn) poet, who cares about both 'facts' and ideas and makes his poetry out of the interpenetration of the two. --Glyn Pursglove
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Delightfully alert to connections and intersections, to historical ironies... [Greening is] a serious (but never excessively solemn) poet, who cares about both 'facts' and ideas and makes his poetry out of the interpenetration of the two. --Glyn Pursglove
JOHN GREENING (b. 1954) received a Cholmondeley Award in 2008 and was made a Fellow of the English Association and a Hawthornden Fellow in 2010. He has won the Bridport Prize and the TLS Centenary Prize. He is author of a dozen collections of poetry, including HUNTS: Poems 1979 2009, and of various critical studies on poets of the First World War, Yeats, Hardy, Edward Thomas and Ted Hughes. Most recently he has published a survey of Elizabethan love poets and Poetry Masterclass. He has written several plays (his verse drama about the Lindbergh kidnap was premiered in the USA) and his libretti include one for the Dunedin Consort at the Wigmore Hall. He reviews regularly for the TLS and is one of the judges for the Eric Gregory Awards. He has just completed a prose memoir of two years spent in Upper Egypt and is currently editing a new edition of Edmund Blunden's Undertones of War for Oxford University Press. He is married, with two daughters.
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- PublisherOxfordPoets
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1906188084
- ISBN 13 9781906188085
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