John Greening is an experienced teacher of adults, students and children both in the UK and overseas – in America and Egypt. In 2010 he was nominated to become a Fellow of the English Association. His popular poetry workshop at the Indian King Arts Centre, Cornwall, has been running for over ten years and has included established poets and relative beginners, many of whom have gone on to publish in magazines or to bring out full collections. 

He has lectured on Jon Silkin (the first Memorial Lecture), Vernon Watkins (at the Swansea Dylan Thomas Festival) and recently on the poets of the First World War at Ledbury Festival. He has published student guides to both the Poets of the First World War and to W.B.Yeats.  These books are suitable for A-level or university students as well as for the general reader.  John Greening teaches English at Kimbolton School in Cambridgeshire, an independent co-educational school situated in Kimbolton Castle – where Catherine of Aragon died and Sir John Popham (judge of Guy Fawkes and Walter Raleigh) once lived. 

For many years he and his colleague, the Peterloo poet Stuart Henson, have run a series of poetry readings in the Saloon of the castle.  For further information, see the contact details.

In conjunction with The Poetry School, John Greening will be runs monthly writers' workshops at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge.