John Greening is a Bridport, Arvon and Cholmondeley winner, author of over twenty collections and The Interpretation of Owls: Selected Poems 1977-2022 (Baylor UP, ed. Gardner). He has edited Arnold, Blunden, Grigson, Crichton Smith and most recently U.A.Fanthorpe. As well as several critical studies and translations (notably Goethe), there have been anthologies such as Contraflow: Lines of Englishness co-edited with Kevin Gardner. A book of linked essays, photographs and poems, A High Calling, appears from Renard in 2025 when his versions of Rilke’s New Poems are also due from Baylor.

John Greening's website can be found at www.johngreening.co.uk.

John Greening's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises eight contributions of poetry and two articles, over a period of 18 years. Also available are two reviews of John Greening's work and one translation by John Greening.