John Glenday
John Glenday was born in this Scottish town on this date
These two themes are the most commonly present throughout Grain.
What are love and death?
This poem in Grain makes multiple references to various locations in Scotland.
What is 'Song'?
The poem 'Loving Cup' personifies this celestial body.
What is the sun?
Grain was published in this year.
What is 2009?
John Glenday studied Literature and Language at this Scottish university.
What is University of Edinburgh?
These two poems in the collection Grain have a Biblical theme by referencing two common Bible stories.
What are 'Genesis' and 'Arc'?
The poem 'Glen Dye' references this river located near the Scottish border.
What is the Water of Dye?
The poem 'Stranger' compares being forgotten quickly to this natural phenomenon.
What is water falling through stone?
John Glenday worked as this for 12 years before becoming a poet.
What is a psychiatric nurse?
John Glenday currently lives in this Scottish town with his wife Erika Glenday.
What is Carnoustie, Scotland?
The poem 'Etching of a Line of Trees' uses this theme to convey the complex relationship between love and nature.
What is light vs darkness?
This poem is the only one in the Grain collection that is written in Scots.
What is The Lilly?
The poem 'A Fairy Tale' tells the story of Beauty and the Beast in reverse. This is an example of this literary device.
What is an allusion?
Grain was on the shortlist for these two awards.
What is The Ted Hughes Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize?
John Glenday has written these four collections of poetry.
What are The Apple Ghost, Undark, Grain, and The Golden Mean?
The theme of the poem, 'Grain', can most accurately be described as which of the following:
Your passion being your demise
A religious faith is essential to understand death
Nature heals both spirit and mind
What is 'your passion being your demise'?
This town on the west coast of Isle of Lewis is the title of a poem in Grain.
What is Mangurstadh?
This poem contains five similes making comparisons about white moths.
What is 'The Uncertain'?
John Glendale was a judge for the 2011 National Poetry Competition alongside this poet and novelist.
Who is Jackie Kay?
This adjective is often used to describe Glenday's writing style in Grain.
What is 'Noust'?
'At Innernytie' references a castle belonging to this Scottish family.
Who is the Chriton family?
This metaphor is used in 'What My Mother Called Me' to describe Glenday's feelings about love.
What is the comparison of the human heart to the size of a clenched fist?
Glenday took this many years to write and publish the collection of poems which we now know as Grain.
What is 14 years?