Drinks With Dead Poets by Glyn Maxwell
Poet Glyn Maxwell wakes up in a mysterious village one autumn day. He has no idea how he got there but he has a strange feeling there’s a class to teach. And isn’t that Keats wandering down the lane? Why not ask him to give a reading, do a Q and A, hit the pub with the students afterwards? Soon the whole of the autumn term stretches ahead, with Byron, the Brontës, the War Poets and many more all on their way to give readings in the humble village hall. In this one-of-a-kind novel, Maxwell takes writing exercises that he’s used in real classes, and explores them with fictional students and major poets.
Poetry is a pitiless mistress.. This paradox of irritation and compulsion hovers behind Glyn Maxwell's brilliantly unclassifiable new book... Professor Maxwell arrives on a mysterious campus in a dream-state, having no clue where he is or what he is supposed to be doing. This tallies exactly with the experience of arriving at a new university, whether as staff or student... In this dream world, only Thursdays exist and all the visiting poets are dead ones. Not quite getting the hang of it at first, the narrator wonders who the "frock-coated emo" is, hanging around outside, talking about bonnets. It's only little Johnny Keats! Despite a stellar term's line-up, including Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson and WB Yeats, the elusive students are hard to impress... A prefatory note explains that although the poets' utterances come verbatim from their writings, these biographical sketches, "like the village and the students and their mystified professor, are works of make-believe"... [a] wholly brilliant evocation of a mysterious university campus, its students and visiting lecturers * The Guardian *
If you love poetry, you should read it. But if you think poetry is too hard, too boring, too old-school, then you must read it. It might just change the way you see the world. * The Daily Mail *
If you love poetry, you should read it. But if you think poetry is too hard, too boring, too old-school, then you must read it. It might just change the way you see the world. * The Daily Mail *
Glyn Maxwell is a poet, novelist, and playwright. He has published twelve collections of verse, including Pluto, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, Hide Now, which was shortlisted for both the Forward and T.S. Eliot, and The Nerve, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781783197415 |
| ISBN 10 | 1783197412 |
| Title | Drinks With Dead Poets |
| Author | Glyn Maxwell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2016-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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