greeningpoet.bsky.social
British poet (The Interpretation of Owls: Poems 1977-2022 ed. Gardner, Baylor UP). Also editor of anthologies & editions of Blunden, Grigson, Crichton Smith, a new selected UA Fanthorpe & a forthcoming Matthew Arnold. Not forgetting a Rilke 'New Poems'
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@greeningpoet.bsky.social“I was drawn, surely, to the unusual combination of spiritual reach and humour, as well as recognising the poet’s extraordinary gift for characterisation in miniature” — @greeningpoet.bsky.social on discovering George Mackay Brown #poetry wildcourt.co.uk/discovering-...
Show PostDEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, edited by @greeningpoet.bsky.social #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017094...
Show PostThe glitter of water and the wake… Heading for University in Aberdeen. It’s an autumn morning. I am seventeen… —Iain Crichton Smith, “Aberdeen University 1945–49 (1)” in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, ed @greeningpoet.bsky.social, @carcanet.bsky.social 2021 #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017094...
Show PostHe will outlast us, churning out his books, advocate and historian, his prose earning him Abbotsford with its borrowed gates, its cheap mementos from the land he made… —Iain Crichton Smith, “At the Scott Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival” DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2021 #BookWormSat
Show PostI see the old woman behind the flowering broom. I have followed her from poem to poem … —Iain Crichton Smith, “Old Woman” from Deer on the High Hills: Selected Poems, ed. @greeningpoet.bsky.social. @carcanet.bsky.social 2021 #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017094...
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