Greta credits reading as “the best education I’ve ever had – better than school or university.” Greta and her partner Robert Montgomery founded New River Press, the first poet-led press to come out of London in more than 100 years. Together, they have published seven books of poetry, including Perishing Tame, Greta’s meditations on motherhood, female identity, boredom and love. Her first feature-length documentary, The Safe House: A Decline of Ideas, investigates the rise and decline of the British public library – a space where Greta spent a lot of time as a child. “Libraries give you that possibility of ideas, no matter how small they are – those ideas are the difference between who goes to art school and who becomes a lawyer,” she says. An activist for education and reading, Greta’s favourite fact about literature is one worth repeating: “A book never loses its value no matter how long it’s sat on your bookshelf.”
