The next in the series of Ouse Muse Poetry Readings will be on Wednesday 19th June

Our featured poet will be John Greening.

John is a TLS reviewer and Eric Gregory judge. His reading for Ouse Muse will be one of the first outings for his new collection from Carcanet, The Silence.

His awards include the Bridport Prize and a Cholmondeley. He has recently published an Egypt memoir Threading a Dream: a Poet on the Nile, a new edition of Geoffrey Grigson’s poetry, the fine press chapbook Achill Island Tagebuch, and a major collaboration with Penelope Shuttle, Heath. His reading for Ouse Muse will be one of the first outings for his new collection from Carcanet, The Silence (May, 2019). His many earlier books include the collection To the War Poets and studies of poetry and poets from the Elizabethans to Ted Hughes. His edition of Edmund Blunden’s Undertones of War appeared from Oxford in 2015, along with a classical music anthology, Accompanied Voices. There is a pamphlet from New Walk Editions due in autumn 2019, and in 2020 a collection of his collected essays and reviews. He has recently collaborated with the baritone Roderick Williams on his Schubert Project and is currently editing a new edition of Iain Crichton Smith’s poetry.'

You will also have the opportunity to read one of your own poems. Please arrive on time to book your slot.

Free to reserve your place.

£5 on the door or £4 if you bring a poem to read at the open mic slots.