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Did you.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n<\/div>
In Glyn Maxwell\u2019s graveyard shift, Kipling\u2019s If <\/i>is about Grenfell Tower, Tennyson\u2019s Charge of the Light Brigade <\/i>about the\nJohnson government\u2019s response to Covid, and Rossetti\u2019s Goblin Market <\/i>a dark tale of <\/i>England\nunder the tabloids.<\/i><\/p>\n\n<\/div>
\u2018Ours is\nnot the world and all that\u2019s in it,<\/b><\/p>\n\n<\/div>
Ours is how\nwe live and if we care\u2026\u2019<\/b> <\/b><\/p>\n\n<\/div>
Oscar Wilde, the Brownings and Gerard Manley Hopkins\nchime in with poems about the hacking scandal, the Met Police, Afghanistan, and\nthe death of migrants in the Channel.<\/p>
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\u2018Sixty years and I will have my say<\/b><\/p>\n\n<\/div>
on England, fond and fooled and wrecked<\/b><\/p>\n\n<\/div>
and sinking with three cheers in the dissolving light\u2026\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n\n<\/div>
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\u2018Genius. A work of both\ntradition and sedition, of essential political inquiry. Playful,\nerudite and passionate, a hymn to the state of the nation.\u2019<\/p>
\n\n<\/div>
Joelle Taylor<\/b><\/p>\n\n<\/div>
\u2018Glyn\nMaxwell locks himself up in the traditional forms of English verse and throws\naway the key; only to escape before our very eyes in a white-hot\nrage directed at the maleness \u2013 politicians, police, planners \u2013 which is laying\nwaste to England. This is a dazzling, heroic and virtuoso endeavour from one of\nour finest poets.\u2019 <\/b><\/p>\n\n<\/div>
Carol\nAnn Duffy<\/b> <\/b><\/p>\n\n<\/div>
\u2018Maxwell performs a\nmagic trick: a homage to famous poems that makes us simultaneously remember and\nforget the source: it\u2019s a tome dipped in a dream, a renegade covers album, and\ncompletely his own.\u2019 <\/p>
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Caroline Bird<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Glyn Maxwell<\/b> is a poet, playwright, librettist and teacher. His poetry books include\nHow The Hell Are You<\/i>, Pluto<\/i>, Hide Now<\/i>, and The Breakage<\/i>,\nall of which were shortlisted for the Forward or T. S. Eliot Prizes, and The Nerve<\/i>, which won the Geoffrey Faber\nMemorial Prize. His Selected Poems, One\nThousand Nights and Counting<\/i>, was published on both sides of the Atlantic\nin 2011, and his epic poem Time\u2019s Fool <\/i>is\nin development as a feature-length film with Fox Searchlight.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>
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On Poetry<\/i>, a guidebook for the general reader, was\npublished in 2012. The Spectator<\/i>\ncalled it \u2018a modern classic\u2019 and The\nGuardian\u2019s <\/i>Adam Newey described it as \u2018the best book about poetry I\u2019ve ever\nread.\u2019 Drinks With Dead Poets<\/i>, a\nfictional sequel, followed in 2016. Maxwell is working on a philosophical\namplification of On Poetry <\/i>titled Silly Games To Save the World.<\/i><\/p>\n\n<\/div>
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His plays have been staged widely in the UK\nand the US. His opera libretti include The\nFirework Maker\u2019s Daughter<\/i>, <\/i>which\nwas nominated for \u2018Best New Opera\u2019 at the Oliviers in 2014, and Nothing <\/i>(also for composer David Bruce) <\/i>which was nominated for the same prize\nin the Sky Arts Awards in 2017. He has also written libretti for Elena Langer\nand Luke Bedford, and for Mozart\u2019s The\nMagic Flute<\/i>. His new version of Wagner\u2019s The Flying Dutchman <\/i>premi\u00e8res in London in the summer of 2023 and\nwill tour several port cities of the UK.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>
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Maxwell has taught at the Universities of\nWarwick and Essex in the UK, at Columbia, Princeton, NYU, The New School and\nAmherst College in the USA, and now teaches on the Writing Poetry MA at The\nPoetry School.<\/p>
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‘We got the big calls right.’
Did you.
In Glyn Maxwell’s graveyard shift, Kipling’s If is about Grenfell Tower, Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade about the
Johnson government’s response to Covid, and Rossetti’s Goblin Market a dark tale of England
under the tabloids.
‘Ours is
not the world and all that’s in it,
Ours is how
we live and if we care…’
Oscar Wilde, the Brownings and Gerard Manley Hopkins
chime in with poems about the hacking scandal, the Met Police, Afghanistan, and
the death of migrants in the Channel.
‘Sixty years and I will have my say
on England, fond and fooled and wrecked
and sinking with three cheers in the dissolving light…’
‘Genius. A work of both
tradition and sedition, of essential political inquiry. Playful,
erudite and passionate, a hymn to the state of the nation.’
Joelle Taylor
‘Glyn
Maxwell locks himself up in the traditional forms of English verse and throws
away the key; only to escape before our very eyes in a white-hot
rage directed at the maleness – politicians, police, planners – which is laying
waste to England. This is a dazzling, heroic and virtuoso endeavour from one of
our finest poets.’
Carol
Ann Duffy
‘Maxwell performs a
magic trick: a homage to famous poems that makes us simultaneously remember and
forget the source: it’s a tome dipped in a dream, a renegade covers album, and
completely his own.’
Caroline Bird
Glyn Maxwell is a poet, playwright, librettist and teacher. His poetry books include
How The Hell Are You, Pluto, Hide Now, and The Breakage,
all of which were shortlisted for the Forward or T. S. Eliot Prizes, and The Nerve, which won the Geoffrey Faber
Memorial Prize. His Selected Poems, One
Thousand Nights and Counting, was published on both sides of the Atlantic
in 2011, and his epic poem Time’s Fool is
in development as a feature-length film with Fox Searchlight.
On Poetry, a guidebook for the general reader, was
published in 2012. The Spectator
called it ‘a modern classic’ and The
Guardian’s Adam Newey described it as ‘the best book about poetry I’ve ever
read.’ Drinks With Dead Poets, a
fictional sequel, followed in 2016. Maxwell is working on a philosophical
amplification of On Poetry titled Silly Games To Save the World.
His plays have been staged widely in the UK
and the US. His opera libretti include The
Firework Maker’s Daughter, which
was nominated for ‘Best New Opera’ at the Oliviers in 2014, and Nothing (also for composer David Bruce) which was nominated for the same prize
in the Sky Arts Awards in 2017. He has also written libretti for Elena Langer
and Luke Bedford, and for Mozart’s The
Magic Flute. His new version of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman premières in London in the summer of 2023 and
will tour several port cities of the UK.
Maxwell has taught at the Universities of
Warwick and Essex in the UK, at Columbia, Princeton, NYU, The New School and
Amherst College in the USA, and now teaches on the Writing Poetry MA at The
Poetry School.