
One Thousand Nights and Counting
Selected Poems
Glyn Maxwell(Author)
Picador (Publisher)
Published on 4. February 2011
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-330-53440-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book selects from twenty years of Glyn Maxwell's poetry, and provides a concise introduction to one of the most imaginatively gifted poets of the age. Maxwell's is perhaps the most immediately recognizable voice in British poetry: wry, wise, compellingly rhythmic, and everywhere carrying a sense of the dramatic line no other British poet has won for their verse since W. H. Auden. While wholly contemporary in their social and political concerns, these poems are haunted by forgotten histories, traditional fairytale and myth, parallel worlds which mirror or merge with our own. As Joseph Brodsky noted early in his career, the beating heart of this imaginative risk is the syntax itself: in Maxwell's hands the poetic sentence becomes a fluid, new and protean thing, a means by which the very structure of time, voice and location may be questioned and made strange. Maxwell is a poet essential to understanding our own unstable times, and few other contemporary writers give us such pause before the world we thought we knew.
'Glyn Maxwell covers a greater distance in a single line than most people do in a poem' Joseph Brodsky
'Glyn Maxwell covers a greater distance in a single line than most people do in a poem' Joseph Brodsky
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
443 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-330-53440-6 (9780330534406)
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07/2011
Picador
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Person
An established and critically-acclaimed poet and playwright, Glyn Maxwell has won the Somerset Maugham Prize and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and had three collections selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. He has also been shortlisted for the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes, and in 2004 received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Nerve.