Crowning

As the title suggests, Crowning, by British poet John Greening, represents the culmination of a life’s work that includes more than twenty full collections. These new poems (following his 2023 Baylor Selected, The Interpretation of Owls, edited by Kevin J. Gardner), are sometimes free, sometimes formal, but always musical and take us into previously unexplored spiritual territory. Yet this is a collection full of wit and playfulness. The short title poem recalls the birth of a granddaughter...