From my Poetry Bookshelf – John Glenday – Selected Poems
A bit later than normal, this week’s from my poetry bookshelf post is a (brief) introduction to the work of John Glenday. John Glenday was born in Broughty Ferry in 1952. He has said in interview that his mother was a reader, his father not at all. She gave him the words, his father the silences, a Glenday-like formulation. His ambition to be a poet was first fired in his teens. ‘A lot of people…