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Imprint: Renard Press
ISBN: 9781804471098
Paperback with flaps • 72pp • £10
129 mm x 198 mm
03/04/24
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From the East

Sixty Huntingdonshire Codices

John Greening

ISBN: 9781804471098
Paperback with flaps • 72pp
Published 3 April 2024

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In over twenty poetry collections since 1982, John Greening has explored subjects as varied as Egypt, Captain Scott, WWI, classical music, Ben Jonson and Heathrow airport, but he has kept returning to the landscape of a quintessentially English (and technically non-existent) county. His well-received Huntingdonshire Eclogues of the late 1980s were followed a decade later by Huntingdonshire Nocturnes and, another ten more years after that, the Huntingdonshire Elegies.

On a cold Boxing Day walk in 2017, while the ferocious storm, the ‘Beast from the East’ prowled the land, his Huntingdonshire Codices began to come together, and what had been a trilogy turned into a quartet.

Formed of sixty fifteen-line stanzas, this haunting and consistently entertaining collection can be read like a journal, tracking lines of thought through time and space, painting detailed, witty and moving pictures of a countryside and life that lie unchanged, even through periods of great upheaval – political, ecological and cultural.

About the author

John Greening is recipient of several major prizes and a Cholmondeley Award. Beyond the many collections represented in The Interpretation of Owls: Selected Poems 1977–2022 (ed. Gardner), he has produced anthologies and editions of major poets. Having lived in Egypt, Scotland and New Jersey, he and his family have settled in East Anglia.

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