New poems by John Greening
To mark the publication day of his Vapour Trails: Reviews and Essays on Poetry (Shoestring Press), Wild Court is featuring four new poems by …
AuthorJohn Greening
On Martin Booth’s ‘The Knotting Poems’
The main part of Knotting in 1884. Courtesy of the Bedfordshire County Archives. John Greening It’s unlikely that many readers will remember …
Two poems by John Greening
Villa D’Este More water, extravagant upshootings and downpourings of it, unbottled from the veins of a Borgia. Such force and power …
Two new poems by John Greening
The following poems appear in John Greening’s new collection, The Silence, published by Carcanet in June 2019. from The Silence …
Making the Cut: John Greening on editing poems
John Greening I often quote Basil Bunting’s advice to young poets, that you should ‘cut out every word you dare’. Bunting certainly practised …