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To the War PoetsJohn Greening![]() 10% off eBook (EPUB)
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Categories: 21st Century, British, War writings
Imprint: OxfordPoets Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (86 pages) (Pub. Nov 2013) 9781906188085 £9.95 £8.96 eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Nov 2013) 9781906188160 £9.95 £8.96 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
So there
you lie, about to die but not until St George’s, when they’ll bury you on Skyros, Achilles’ home, and watch the trickle begin (from brook to river to flood) out of this dry island. from ‘To Rupert Brooke’ In To the War Poets John Greening sends dispatches across the decades. In a sequence of verse letters he addresses the poets of the First World War directly, making connections yet always aware of distance: ‘No larks, / just the passing of traffic.’ Greening explores ‘Englishness’, but also, in his translations from German poets, goes beyond it. From the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial in 1939 to the security forces’ shut-down of Heathrow airport in 2006, the presence or threat of conflict underlies Greening’s precise, unsentimental writing.
War (Georg Heym) On the Eastern Front (Georg Trakl) Pleasure in Form (Ernst Stadler) In Despair (August Stramm) To August Stramm, Georg Trakl, Ernst Stadler, Georg Heym (Langemark) The Train To Isaac Rosenberg (Dover) The Island, A to Z To Wilfrid Gibson (The Menin Gate) The Hope Valley Line 11 To John McCrae (Essex Farm, Yser Canal) To Robert Nichols (France) Feast Day, Melchbourne To Edmund Blunden (Ypres) Reading John Clare on New Year’s Eve Causeway To Laurence Binyon (Sanctuary Wood) So it Runs In Trafalgar Square To Siegfried Sassoon (Near Bapaume) Yeats Dances Dropping Slow Odyssey To the Sun (After Akhenaten) To Rupert Brooke (Grantchester) Wadi Halfa Colonial To Rudyard Kipling (Tyne Cot) Africa To Julian Grenfell (Sanctuary Wood) Hounslow Heath Row Cycle, with Cytologist Middlesex To One Who Was With Me (St Julien) To Edward Thomas (Agny) Hiraeth Eglwys Llangwyfan Home Office To Vera Brittain (Louvencourt) Piano Music Group Elgar New World (1937) American Music Field The Mounds at Sutton Hoo Waldo Williams in Perry Aldermaston Summer (Ernst Stadler) Bugles (Georg Trakl) To Charles Sorley (Dunkerque) To Robert Graves (Dover) Grodek (Georg Trakl) Forge House Kentish Awre Note on Akhenaten’s Hymn to the Sun
Awards won by John Greening
Winner, 2001 TLS Centenary
Winner, 1998 Bridport Award
Winner, 2008 Cholmondeley Award
'Delightfully alert to connections and intersections, to historical ironies... [Greening is] a serious (but never excessively solemn) poet, who cares about both 'facts' and ideas and makes his poetry out of the interpenetration of the two.'
Glyn Pursglove 'So to conclude calamity in rest.' In his powerful new collection, John Greening opens lines of communication with poets of the Great War, bridging a century with heart-work of immediacy, economy and humanity.' Penelope Shuttle Praise for John Greening 'A fine collection of verse... constantly fresh and insightful. It is a collection to return to frequently, to immerse oneself in its richness, its darkness, and its felicity of voice' David Malcolm, Poetry Salzburg Review 'It's a loving and inventive meditation on the sources of creative inspiration; the vagaries of artistic confidence... Greening immerses us in the radiant muddle in which Sibelius found himself during the last three decades of his life.' Frank Beck, The Manhattan Review 'Historical encounters are handled with superb formal control, their power coming from the combination of almost surreal imaginative coincidences with a purity of diction' William Bedford, The High Window 'This is an intelligent, satisfying collection and, appropriately for poetry where one of the main subjects is a musician, it is consistently musical' Alwyn Marriage, London Grip 'Beyond the admirable craftsmanship that characterises almost all of his work, one of Greening's great strengths is his historical imagination.' Glyn Pursglove
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