Forgotten Ground Regained
Ian Greenwood
Ian David Greenwood (1947-2019) was born in East London, grew up in Bridport, and attended Blundell's School in Devon. Returning to London as an adult, he became a teacher; a vocation he followed for the whole of his life. As a young man, Ian began writing poetry, an activity he continued until his passing in 2019. For many years editor of Slingshot: The Magazine of the Society of Ancients, an organization of tabletop wargamers, Ian's other passions included literature, philately, cricket, and the second world war, all of which find representation in his poems.
In 1994 he won the Cædmon Prize for his modern English poem in alliterative verse, The Whitby Elegy. He also published two Anglo-Saxon style riddles in Withowinde in 1993. His poetry is reprinted here with the permission of his family.
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