Event overview
Glyn Maxwell's collections of poetry include Out of the Rain (1992), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and The Nerve (2002), which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His most recent collections are Pluto (2013) and his Selected Poems One Thousand Nights and Counting (2011) Four of his poetry collections have been short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, and two have been short-listed for the Whitbread Poetry Prize. His poetry has been anthologized widely, including in The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry (1999) and The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945(1998). He has also written verse plays as well as long narrative poems. The Sugar Mile (2005), a verse narrative set in a Manhattan bar a few days before September 11, 2001, weaves together several voices and stories exploring the nature of fate. Time's Fool: A Tale in Verse (2000) updates the Flying Dutchman story in 400 pages of strict terza rima.
Maxwell's critically acclaimed plays, about half of which are in verse, have been performed across the United States and Great Britain. He has also written opera libretti and fiction. His first novel, Blue Burneau (1994), was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Welsh Academy, Maxwell has won the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Eric Gregory Award.
His book of criticism, ON POETRY was reviewed as 'The best book about poetry I've ever read…a tremendously good book…a masterclass in close reading and close writing…certainly the only [book about poetry] that's made me laugh out loud.' -Adam Newey, THE GUARDIAN
Dates & times
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| 21 May 2014 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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