One Thousand Nights and Counting by Glyn Maxwell

One Thousand Nights and Counting by Glyn Maxwell

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

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.

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ISBN 13	9780330534406
ISBN 10	0330534408
Title	One Thousand Nights and Counting
Author	Glyn Maxwell
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2011-02-04
Number of pages	272
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