An Evening of Poetry with John Greening
Brendon Books CIC, Taunton, TA1 4ER
Thursday 11th June 2026
Distinguished poet, critic and playwright John Greening will be reading at Brendon Books together with members of Taunton’s Fire River Poets.
Please join us for a feast of poetry and the opportunity to hear one of ourn most highly regarded writers share his work and talk about his recent projects as a poetry editor.
John Greening is a Bridport, Arvon and Cholmondeley winner with over twenty collections, including The Silence (Carcanet, 2019), From the East (Renard, 2024) and The Interpretation of Owls: Selected Poems 1977-2022 (Baylor UP, 2023). He’s currently preparing editions of William Scammell and Molly Holden, having already edited selections of Matthew Arnold, Geoffrey Grigson, Edmund Blunden, Iain Crichton Smith and
U.A.Fanthorpe.
There have also been several critical studies and anthologies, notably Accompanied Voices (poems about composers), Hollow Palaces (modern country) house poems) and Contraflow: Lines of Englishness - a Guardian and Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year. The last two were in collaboration with Kevin Gardner. They are in the process of preparing a new general anthology of British verse: Roundelay. 2025 saw publication of John Greening's collection of essays, poems and photographs, A High Calling or Where Do You get Your Ideas From? (Renard) and last year there was a completevRilke New Poems from Baylor, who will be bringing out his next full collection, Crowning.
Please join us for a feast of poetry and the opportunity to hear one of ourn most highly regarded writers share his work and talk about his recent projects as a poetry editor.
John Greening is a Bridport, Arvon and Cholmondeley winner with over twenty collections, including The Silence (Carcanet, 2019), From the East (Renard, 2024) and The Interpretation of Owls: Selected Poems 1977-2022 (Baylor UP, 2023). He’s currently preparing editions of William Scammell and Molly Holden, having already edited selections of Matthew Arnold, Geoffrey Grigson, Edmund Blunden, Iain Crichton Smith and
U.A.Fanthorpe.
There have also been several critical studies and anthologies, notably Accompanied Voices (poems about composers), Hollow Palaces (modern country) house poems) and Contraflow: Lines of Englishness - a Guardian and Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year. The last two were in collaboration with Kevin Gardner. They are in the process of preparing a new general anthology of British verse: Roundelay. 2025 saw publication of John Greening's collection of essays, poems and photographs, A High Calling or Where Do You get Your Ideas From? (Renard) and last year there was a completevRilke New Poems from Baylor, who will be bringing out his next full collection, Crowning.
