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.