Publisher's Synopsis
John Greening's poetry confronts us with history: with the deeds of the past as they affect the needs of the present. In his Tutankhamun sequence, the boy-king only has a walk-on role, while the lead players-Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, who opened the pharaoh's tomb in 1922 - seem prompted from the wings by a distinctly modern voice. Two other sequences, Plantagenets and Civil War Poems, present dramatic portraits of historical figures from Richard I to Cromwell, while The Winter Journey follows three members of Scott's Antarctic expedition on their hellish trek to find an Emperor Penguin's egg.
