John Greening (poet)

John Greening
John Greening
Born	20 March 1954 Chiswick, England
Occupation	Poet, editor, critic
Nationality	British
Period	1976 – present

John Greening (born 20 March 1954 in Chiswick, London) is an English poet, critic, playwright and teacher. He has published over twenty poetry collections large and small, including To the War Poets (2013) and The Silence (2019), both from Carcanet Press, and The Interpretation of Owls: Selected Poems, 1977-2022 (2023), from Baylor University Press. He has edited a major illustrated edition of Edmund Blunden’s war memoir, Undertones of War, for Oxford University Press and produced editions of poetry by Geoffrey Grigson and Iain Crichton Smith. His anthologies include Accompanied Voices: Poets on Composers from Thomas Tallis to Arvo Pärt (Boydell and Brewer, 2015), Hollow Palaces: An Anthology of Modern Country House Poems (Liverpool University Press, 2021), and Contraflow: Lines of Englishness, 1922-2022 (Renard Press, 2023), the latter two co-edited with Kevin Gardner. He has reviewed poetry for the Times Literary Supplement since the 1990s. His collected reviews and essays, Vapour Trails (Shoestring Press), appeared late in 2020. He is a recipient of the Alexandria International Poetry Prize (1981), the Bridport Prize (1998), the TLS Centenary Prize (2001) and a Cholmondeley Award (2008).