John GreeningJohn Greening is a poet, critic and playwright. Born in 1954 in Chiswick, he was brought up near Heathrow Airport and attended university at Swansea, Mannheim and Exeter. His poetry has been awarded the Bridport Prize, the TLS Centenary Prize, the Aron Prize and a Cholmondeley Award. There have been over twenty collections since his debut in 1982. He has published many studies of poets and poetry, and has edited Geoffrey Grigson and Edmund Blunden along with several anthologies. He has been a regular reviewer of poetry, especially for The Poetry Review and the Times Literary Supplement (the collected reviews and essays, Vapour Trails, have just appeared) and for twelve years was one of the judges for the Eric Gregory Awards. He has taught in Upper Egypt, New Jersey and Cambridgeshire and was until recently the RLF Writing Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. This year sees publication of his edition of Iain Crichton Smith and a major anthology of country house poems Hollow Palaces. - co-edited with Kevin Gardner who is currently preparing John Greening's new Selected Poems. He is married, with two daughters. For further details see his website www.johngreening.co.uk or visit John Greening (poet) - Wikipedia Read More Read Less