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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A new William Scammell Selected Poems from Renard Press @renardpress.com #poetry

John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Poems and talk of poetry in the August edition of ars notoria - from Andrew Motion, Michael Schmidt and me arsnotoria.com/2026/08/

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August 2026 – Ars Notoria

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It was an honour to be asked some years ago to edit a new selection of Iain Crichton Smith, one of Scotland's best and best known makars. Also one of the most readable of poets. He was a successful novelist too, so he knows how to entertain. Do try him if you don't know him @carcanet.bsky.social

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A great pleasure to discover neglected California poet Henri Coulette in this excellent selection from @carcanet.bsky.social , edited by @bdralyuk.bsky.social and Michael Caines #poetry

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Graeme Richardson's poetry collection Dirt Rich arrived today and first impressions are excellent #poetry @carcanet.bsky.social

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 10/01/2026

It's time to choose the last IS&T Pick of the Month for 2025. Will December's be Toby Cotton, @michelleadiaz.bsky.social, @greeningpoet.bsky.social, Paula R. Hilton, Usha Kishore or @fionalarkin.bsky.social. More at inksweatandtears.co.uk/december-202... #InkSweatandTears #PickoftheMonth

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IS&T December Pick of the Month

* Toby Cotton
*Michelle Diaz
*John Greening
*Paula R. Hilton
*Usha Kishore
*Fiona Larkin

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

And today is 99 years since Rilke died

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Some thoughts in the latest Poetry News - much along the lines of the essays which make up my recent Renard Press book, A High Calling. @renardpress.com @poetrysociety.org.uk #poetry

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Issue Eight of And Other Poems is here. andotherpoems.com/issue-eight/ Cover photo by Ed Vázquez on unsplash. #andotherpoems #poems #poetry #poets #poem #poet #litmag #magazine #poetrymag #newpoems

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

My translations of Rilke have arrived #BookSky

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

An informal chat about #Rilke for his 150th birthday and to celebrate publication of my translations of his compiete New Poems youtube.com/watch?v=2rA-...

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John Greening - ET AL.

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

It's Rilke's 150th birthday, which coincides with publication of my translations of his complete New Poems - getting on for 200 of them. Out from Baylor University Press now. Here I am reading his poem about a dog. #Rilke #poetry #translation

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 17/10/2025

“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 #poetrysky wildcourt.co.uk/discovering-...

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Discovering George Mackay Brown – Wild Court

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

This free online poetry event is at 6 UK time today

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

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 #Magdalen #Betjeman #poetry #BookSky

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

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 #poetrycommunity #renardpress www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-green... #BookSky #poetry

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 08/09/2025

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 #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017094...

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.

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

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 #BookSky @baylorpress.bsky.social

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This online launch coming up in September - should be fun #poetry

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Renard Press @renardpress.com · 04/09/2025

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! renardpress.com/books/compas...

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

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. #poetry #BookSky

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

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 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #poetry

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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... @renardpress.com #BookSky

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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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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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?

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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 #poetry

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

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 #poetry @gerrycambridge.bsky.social

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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 youtu.be/Tu6Xe0B9QPo?...

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Oxford German Classic 2025: Introduction to Rilke’s Neue Gedichte

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Younger daughter's piece in The i Paper about writing children’s books @theipaper.com

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Stuart Henson launches this collection of haiku in Huntingdon library this Wednesday. Refreshments and live music. Free.

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

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)

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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

We've finished spotlighting our new issue! Read the whole thing here... badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-1

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Issue twenty-one — Bad Lilies

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

New arrival from Renard - poems, pictures, musings, memories, from years spent trying to emulate those who sing both high and low. Whether you already love it or are a little mystified by it, here's a book on poetry that I hope you'll find enjoyable and informative. renardpress.com/books/a-high...

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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Four poems by @greeningpoet.bsky.social www.badlilies.uk/john-greenin...

In Texas
Before any of the guests can say they love my accent, I am asked by the breakfast receptionist Are you with the firefighters?
I seem to have arrived in time for this swaggering convention of overweight men - all white, except for the shoeshine in the lobby.
But also it's the anniversary of David Koresh's inferno
which has never quite gone out (a Netflix series starts tonight) in Waco.
The day I leave, they'1l celebrate a different guy, who's here to light the fuse on his own cult. And no, I'm not a firefighter, sadly.

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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-One: Long-limbed Darlings badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-1

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Issue twenty-one — Bad Lilies

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

A delightful collection of miniatures from Stuart Henson illustrated by Bill Sanderson. I'm not surprised it was shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award. Beautifully produced by Shoestring. #poetry #haiku #nature www.waterstones.com/book/a-handf...

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Guillemot Press @guillemotpress.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Two celebrations today. Firstly, this new bookling from John F Deane & the artist Tony Martin is out now! Red Gate is beautiful and you can read a few pages or pick up a copy on our website. guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry. Secondly, this is our 100th title. Guillemot Press is a hundred books old today.

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John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Like London buses, another one comes along right behind... I do hope this Selected reminds people how good U.A.Fanthorpe is londongrip.co.uk/2025/06/lond... (see also thefridaypoem.substack.com) @baylorpress.bsky.social @aestallings.bsky.social

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London Grip Poetry Review – U A Fanthorpe – londongrip.co.uk

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

New from Baylor UP: selected poems by Fanthrope (ed. @greeningpoet.bsky.social) and by Thwaite (ed. by me). Discount code in @thetls.bsky.social ad.

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