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John Greening

@greeningpoet.bsky.social

British poet (The Interpretation of Owls: Poems 1977-2022 ed. Gardner, Baylor UP). Also editor of anthologies & editions of Blunden, Grigson, Crichton Smith, a new selected UA Fanthorpe & a forthcoming Matthew Arnold. Not forgetting a Rilke 'New Poems'

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Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 10mo ago

“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-...

Discovering George Mackay Brown – Wild Court

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Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 10mo ago

My father passed with his penny letters Through closes opening and shutting like legends When barbarous with gulls Hamnavoe’s morning broke… —“Hamnavoe”, by George Mackay Brown (1921–1996) – born #OTD, 17 Oct “I have never seen his poetry sufficiently praised.” —Seamus Heaney A 🎂 🧵 #poetrysky 1/8

Hamnavoe George Mackay Brown My father passed with his penny letters Through closes opening and shutting like legends When barbarous with gulls Hamnavoe's morning broke On the salt and tar steps. Herring boats, Puffing red sails, the tillers Of cold horizons, leaned Down the gull-gaunt tide And threw dark nets on sudden silver harvests. A stallion at the sweet fountain Dredged water, and touched Fire from steel-kissed cobbles. Hard on noon four bearded merchants Past the pipe-spitting pier-head strolled, Holy with greed, chanting Their slow grave jargon. A tinker keened like a tartan gull At cuithe-hung doors. A crofter lass Trudged through the lavish dung In a dream of corn-stalks and milk. In the Arctic Whaler three blue elbows fell, Regular as waves, from beards spumy with porter, Till the amber day ebbed out To its black dregs.
John Greening@greeningpoet.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A taster of my forthcoming #Rilke, appearing from Baylor UP next month. This is courtesy of David Cameron at 'Into Poetry' who provides a commentary. One of the best known Neue Gedichte @bayloruniversity.bsky.social intocreative.co.uk/john-greenin...

The Carousel (Rilke) by John Greening

The Carousel Jardin du Luxembourg A roof, a shadow, round and round it spinsfor a little while, this brightly coloured bandof horses from a hesitating landthat’s going, gone. Some do have more than re...

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John Greening@greeningpoet.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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?

Frank Beck@diehoren.bsky.social · 12mo ago

What role should music play in our lives? A new film by Nicholas Hytner, premiering in Toronto next week, shows a Yorkshire choirmaster's struggle to stage a production of Elgar's 'Dream of Gerontius' amidst the upheaval of the First World War. tiff.net/films/the-ch...