The Silence by John Greening Ian Humphreys And beyond it

And beyond it

her poetry is also just the reality of life for her and others like her

and an interest in the fictional and dangerous shaping of history

lyrical poems

The Silence by John Greening Ian Humphreys And beyond itThe 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