The Silence by John Greening Ian Humphreys where elegies for the poet’s

where elegies for the poet’s father sit alongside meditations on the d/Deaf experience

and an interest in the fictional and dangerous shaping of history

a follow-up to her 2015 Arachne Press collection The Don’t Touch Garden which charted her adoption and childhood during WWII (also available as an audio book)

at archaeology in the making

use of sound or ambiguity or unusual metaphor

The Silence by John Greening Ian Humphreys where elegies for the poet’sThe title poem of John Greenings The Silence is a meditation on Sibelius and the thirty years he spent grappling with an eighth symphony that he eventually burned. The poem is emblematic of a broader concern with the mystery of the creative process, explored in the work of other artists but also grappled with first hand, in the composition of poems. Death, that most emphatic of silences, is a recurring theme; but so too is the bright potentiality of