Tale of the Mayor's Son by Glyn Maxwell
Glyn Maxwell's eagerly awaited first book will confirm his reputation as one of British poetry's most exciting new talents, a highly imaginative writer who already has a readership in America as well as at home. Home is an English New Town, a Garden City, the strangest of ordinary places, providing a backdrop for much of Maxwell's work as well as the images that govern it. Love, now simple, now sexual, now bright and naive, now dark and obsessive; the comedy, hypocrisy, and horror of Authority; the absurdities of television, stardom, and advertising: the heroism of the decent and the wisdom of the undecided: these are his themes - and above all the fragility and sting of life, the pain of time passing. Poetry Book Society Choice.
By turns comic and satirical, political and passionate, rhapsodic and elegiac, what makes (this) such rewarding reading is the range of talents he possesses and the energy and inventiveness he deploys in combining them.. A supple formalist whose shrewd control over metre, stanza forms, rhyme and half-rhyme is impressive. * TLS *
Glyn Maxwell covers a greater distance in a single line than most people do in a poem. There is an extraordinary propulsion in his work, owing in part to his tendency to draw metaphor from the syntax itself. He is a poet of immense promise and unforgettable delivery. -- Derek Walcott
Glyn Maxwell covers a greater distance in a single line than most people do in a poem. There is an extraordinary propulsion in his work, owing in part to his tendency to draw metaphor from the syntax itself. He is a poet of immense promise and unforgettable delivery. -- Derek Walcott
Glyn Maxwell was born in 1962 in Welwyn Garden City, where he grew up. He studied English at Oxford and poetry at Boston University. His debut collection Tale of the Mayor's Son (Bloodaxe Books, 1990) was a Poetry Book Society Choice. His second, Out of the Rain (Bloodaxe Books, 1992) won him the Somerset Maugham Award. His third collection, Rest for the Wicked (Bloodaxe Books, 1995), like his second, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990-1995 (Bloodaxe Books, 2000) is a selection from his first three poetry collections from Bloodaxe. He has since published several collections with Faber and Picador as well as writing for the theatre, opera and radio. His most recent titles include Pluto (Picador, 2013), One Thousands Nights and Counting: Selected Poems (Picador, 2011) and On Poetry (Oberon Masters, 2012).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852240981 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852240989 |
| Title | Tale of the Mayor's Son |
| Author | Glyn Maxwell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1990-06-21 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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