The Silence

The Silence

John Greening

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FörlagCarcanet Poetry
ISBN9781784107482

The long title poem of John Greening's The Silence is a meditation on Jean Sibelius and the thirty years he spent grappling with an eighth symphony, which in the end he probably burned. The poem is emblematic of a broader concern with the mystery of the creative process, explored here in the work of