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John Greening was elected a Hawthornden Fellow for 2010 and
will be attending the prestigious writers' retreat at Hawthornden Castle, near
Edinburgh, for four weeks in April/May, during the period of his sabbatical from
Kimbolton School. Future projects for this time include a series of 'verse
letters' to the Elizabethan poets about whom he has been writing for his new
Greenwich Exchange volume, and the preparation of a new guide to the teaching of
poetry (also for Greenwich Exchange). He has also been asked to judge the
Society of Authors' Eric Gregory Awards for a third year.
John's
latest study for Greenwich Exchange will be Elizabethan Love Poets, including
chapters on Campion, Donne, Jonson, Marlow, Mary Wroth and a dozen others.
It will be available late 2009.
Preview of other books:
ACCOMPANIED VOICES: POETS ON COMPOSERS FROM WILLIAM
BYRD TO ARVO PART
This anthology will be the first gathering for many years
of contemporary poetry about classical music. With the rise of the
‘gramophone’, twentieth-century poets began to write more and more about their
favourite composers and their responses to them. From Ted Hughes to Carol
Rumens, poets have often been moved by the Great Masters to produce some of
their best work. Details to follow.
EDWARD THOMAS: following the recent
studies of Thomas Hardy and Ted Hughes in Greenwich Exchange’s ‘Focus’ series,
John Greening’s next critical book with be a study of the poetry of Edward
Thomas.
HUNTS: Poems 1979-2009: a new and fully
representative selection of John Greening’s poetry is to be published by
Greenwich Exchange in Spring 2009. It will include the full texts
of his various prize-winning sequences and recent pamphlets. Further details to
appear later.
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