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John Greening – The Writer As Outsider

Agatha Christie, for example, was so shy she would retreat from a party even as she stood at the door.…
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John Greening – Dreams And The Writer

My dreams are often literary, occasionally disturbingly so, like that vivid encounter I had with R. S. Thomas before I…
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John Greening – Marketing And Me

Buying books to sell at readings, buying more to send out as extra review copies; attending unlikely events in the…
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John Greening – Inspiration

I’ll resort to tea, but anything stronger would make things much worse. The likes of John Berryman or Dylan Thomas…
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John Greening – Rejection

What should a writer do when someone says no? With poems sent to magazines, that’s life. It’s unlikely to have…
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John Greening – Why I Write

If you have to ask yourself why you write, then you probably shouldn’t be doing it. In my experience the…
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John Greening – Letter To My Readers

Think of yourself as a baby dropped in a swimming pool. You won’t drown, and… may even find you’re enjoying…
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John Greening – How Writing Changes The Writer

Writing poetry is about tuning in; language is the necessary crystal. Find the wavelength and everything connects with everything.
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John Greening – The Best Advice I Ever Received

Ted Hughes went on to stress how important it was to keep my creative energies at top pressure by living…
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Poetry Break with John Greening

Poetry Break: John Greening and Julia Copus discuss classic poems by Edward Thomas. John Greening and our host Julia Copus…
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John Greening – Writers Who Inspire Me

There are poets I love but will hesitate to read if I am in the middle of writing a poem…
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John Greening – Being Genre Fluid

The kind of fluidity I aspire to is exemplified by Ted Hughes, who could write a masterly short story such…
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