Next Buzzwords
Sunday February 9th
Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham
7pm Workshop lead
by Angela France
Open mic and readings 8pm
Guest poet John Greening
pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.
John Greening is a Bridport,
Arvon and Cholmondeley winner, author of over twenty collections, notably The
Interpretation of Owls: Selected Poems 1977-2022 (Baylor UP, ed. Gardner) and From the East (Renard Press, 2024).
He has edited Matthew Arnold, Edmund Blunden, Geoffrey Grigson, Iain Crichton Smith and most recently
U.A.Fanthorpe. As well as several critical studies and translations, there have been anthologies such as Contraflow: Lines of
Englishness co-edited with Kevin Gardner (a Guardian and Sunday Times Book of the Year in 2023). A book of
linked essays, photographs and poems, A High Calling, appears
from Renard in 2025 when his versions of Rilke's complete New Poems are
also due from Baylor UP.
John will be reading from his new U.A.Fanthorpe Selected, Not My Best Side, and from his own 2023 Selected Poems.
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