A High Calling: Or, Where Do You Get Your Ideas From? - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1804471496 ISBN 13 : 9781804471494

Editeur : Renard Press Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

Sharing what he’s learnt during half a century’s creative work, John Greening gives us an insight into the life of a poet, playwright, editor, reviewer, teacher and performer. Eminently readable, amusing and informative, A High Calling is a rich resource for anyone with an interest in good writing.

Navigating a wide-ranging career, including a spell as a children’s magician and a time at the BBC with musicologist Hans Keller, as well as years spent living in Upper Egypt, we are taken on a journey around the globe and through time and literature. With an extraordinary cast of poets, including correspondence with Ted Hughes and a meeting with Seamus Heaney at Little Gidding, Greening paints a compelling portrait of the lives behind the writers we meet.

Rich in anecdote and literary insight and interwoven with autobiographical sketches and original poems, A High Calling is anything but lofty in its approach, and is chock-full with down-to-earth advice for readers and writers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Greening is the author of over twenty collections of poetry, most recently The Interpretation of Owls: Selected Poems 1977–2022. His essays on poetry are collected in Vapour Trails and A High Calling. He has taught in Upper Egypt, Scotland and New Jersey, and has lived for many years with his family in Cambridgeshire.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Renard Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1804471496
• ISBN 13: 9781804471494
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Greening John
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