John Greening

John Greening, recipient of the Bridport and TLS Centenary prizes and a Cholmondeley Award, is author of over twenty collections, including To the War Poets and The Silence from Carcanet. A substantial American selection of his work, The Interpretation of Owls: Selected Poems 1977-2022, edited by Kevin Gardner, appeared from Baylor University Press in 2023 and his next is From the East: 60 Huntingdonshire Codices (Renard). He has edited Edmund Blunden's Undertones of War - the illustrated 2015 OUP edition - as well as the poetry of Geoffrey Grigson, Iain Crichton Smith and a U.A.Fanthorpe Selected: Not My Best Side (Baylor, 2024). His translations of Goethe, Nightwalker’s Song, appeared in 2022 and there is a forthcoming edition of Rilke’s complete New Poems. He has published anthologies on music, rubbish, sheds, country houses and Englishness: Contraflow: Lines of Englishness 1922-2022 (with Kevin Gardner) was a Poetry Book of the Year in the Guardian and Sunday Times. His collected essays, Vapour Trails, came out in 2020 and there is a new selection in 2025.