Hide Now by Glyn Maxwell

Hide Now by Glyn Maxwell

In Hide Now, Glyn Maxwell shows how the times have begun to warp time itself: in the poet’s vision, the past rears up again with its angry ghosts, the present is racked by its martial and climatic nightmares, and the future has already come and gone. All the stories of the earth seem menaced by just one – to which nations cover their eyes and ears, and from which the grown-ups run and hide. Scheherazade, Robespierre, Dick Cheney and the Reverend Jim Jones all have their place here, though the book’s presiding genius is the lonely figure of Cassandra, cursed with knowing the fate of a world that finds her screamingly funny. Glyn Maxwell has established an international reputation as one of the most intelligent and stylishly original English poets since Auden, and he has never written with greater urgency or power. ‘[Maxwell’s] astonishing technical facility can make syllables, vowels and consonants do absolutely anything. His energetic voice riffs through evasively ordinary speech taking on love, politics, comedy and bizarre narratives in brilliantly elaborate syntax and forms’ Independent

An established and critically-acclaimed poet, novelist and playwright, Glyn Maxwell has previously won a Somerset Maugham award, received 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’s also been shortlisted for the Whitbread, Forward and T.S. Eliot prizes.

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ISBN 13	9780330456241
ISBN 10	0330456245
Title	Hide Now
Author	Glyn Maxwell
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2008-10-03
Number of pages	80
Prizes	Short-listed for T. S. Eliot Prize 2009 (UK), Short-listed for Forward Prize for Poetry Best Collection 2009 (UK)
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