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Glyn Maxwell: Plays Two

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Author : Glyn Maxwell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786822040
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Glyn Maxwell: Plays Two written by Glyn Maxwell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the plays Broken Journey, Best Man Speech and The Last Valentine A car breaks down in a quiet place in the small hours. Soon a man is dead, a woman traumatised, another man accused. But who really knows what happened? Even the dead man tells a tale. Broken Journey examines the terror and beauty hidden in the mist. The truth hurts for bridegroom Addy, when his downtrodden friend takes revenge on him in his Best Man Speech, and a cruel trick goes seriously wrong for a gang of schoolfriends when they send a mysterious new boy in The Last Valentine.

Glyn Maxwell: Plays One

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Author : Glyn Maxwell
Publisher : Oberon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Glyn Maxwell: Plays One written by Glyn Maxwell and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maxwell is the best dramatic poet now at work in English" - Daily Telegraph

Maxwell: Plays Three

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Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786824035
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Maxwell: Plays Three written by Lewis Carroll and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three beautifully crafted plays for young people by the award-winning playwright Glyn Maxwell. Contains the plays Alice in Wonderland, Wind in the Willows, and Merlin and the Woods of Time.

On Poetry

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Author : Glyn Maxwell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674265874
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book On Poetry written by Glyn Maxwell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a book for anyone,” Glyn Maxwell declares of On Poetry. A guide to the writing of poetry and a defense of the art, it will be especially prized by writers and readers who wish to understand why and how poetic technique matters. When Maxwell states, “With rhyme what matters is the distance between rhymes” or “the line-break is punctuation,” he compresses into simple, memorable phrases a great deal of practical wisdom. In seven chapters whose weird, gnomic titles announce the singularity of the book—“White,” “Black,” “Form,” “Pulse,” “Chime,” “Space,” and “Time”—the poet explores his belief that the greatest verse arises from a harmony of mind and body, and that poetic forms originate in human necessities: breath, heartbeat, footstep, posture. “The sound of form in poetry descended from song, molded by breath, is the sound of that creature yearning to leave a mark. The meter says tick-tock. The rhyme says remember. The whiteness says alone,” Maxwell writes. To illustrate his argument, he draws upon personal touchstones such as Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost. An experienced teacher, Maxwell also takes us inside the world of the creative writing class, where we learn from the experiences of four aspiring poets. “You master form you master time,” Maxwell says. In this guide to the most ancient and sublime of the realms of literature, Maxwell shares his mastery with us.

One Thousand Nights and Counting

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Author : Glyn Maxwell
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447200780
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book One Thousand Nights and Counting written by Glyn Maxwell and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

The Forever Waltz

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Author : Glyn Maxwell
Publisher : Oberon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Forever Waltz written by Glyn Maxwell and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A man arrives in the underworld in search of his true love, to find instead a mysterious guitar-wielding guide who may be able to help him. As he lingers undecided, he begins to mistake the underworld for the real world, becoming caught there, until he wakes up to the reality of his choices and breaks a cycle of violence."--BOOK JACKET.

Time's Fool

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Author : Glyn Maxwell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618257560
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Time's Fool written by Glyn Maxwell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Lea perpetually rides a ghost train -- except every seven years on Christmas Eve, when he is allowed to revisit his home town. Like Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Edmund is condemned to eternity alone until he determines how to lift the curse upon him. Time passes, from 1970 to 2019, but Edmund remains seventeen, unable to age and watching the world grow older. He tries in vain to break the spell by way of true love, repentance, hedonism; he tries to change the world and he tries to die. Characters move in and out of Maxwell's story like Dante's figures in Hell, but Edmund's own Virgil is a careless and unhelpful poet, a portrait of the author as a student. The tale is told in formal terza rima, but its language and tone, its humor and sense of homesickness, are decidedly contemporary. It is a brilliant achievement.

The Nerve

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Author : Glyn Maxwell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618446667
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book The Nerve written by Glyn Maxwell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting and powerful collection, The Nerve captures the strangeness and splendor of America in the twenty-first century. Glyn Maxwell's characters include FBI agents, the Californian "wild child" Genie, a man who holds his own funeral, and women writing love letters to men on Death Row. From college football games to television weather reports, from hayrides to hunting tragedies, Maxwell's brilliant lyrics and narratives explore American life and legend.

Hide Now

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Author : Glyn Maxwell
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330478907
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Hide Now written by Glyn Maxwell and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013

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Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374125619
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection spanning the range of the writer's career includes his first published poem, his celebrated verses on violence in Africa, his mature work from "The Star-Apple Kingdom, " and his late masterpieces from "White Egrets."

After Troy

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Author : Glyn Maxwell
Publisher : Oberon Books
ISBN 13 : 9781849430265
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book After Troy written by Glyn Maxwell and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troy is in ruins. Its men are dead. Its women are captives and the victorious Greeks are camped in the ashes preparing to sail home. Four quarrelling women drawn together by grief... Four exhausted soldiers who hate each other’s guts... A King who falls for a girl so mad she can see the audience... A teenage princess dreaming of the Underworld... And a lonely man of conscience trying to get it all down on paper... Award-winning poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell rips up two Greek tragedies and makes a modern play from the fragments. A witty and passionate retelling of Euripides’ Women Of Troy and Hecuba, After Troy exposes the cruelties of war both then and now.

The Sugar Mile

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Author : Glyn Maxwell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618773657
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book The Sugar Mile written by Glyn Maxwell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glyn Maxwell's last book of poems, The Nerve, was declared "one of the most enjoyable books of the year" by the New York Times Book Review. In The Sugar Mile, Maxwell returns to the extended verse narrative he so brilliantly employed in Time's Fool, to juxtapose two cities on the brink of irrevocable change.The Sugar Mile begins when the poet steps into an uptown Manhattan bar a few days before September 11, 2001. He is confronted by Joseph Stone, a barstool regular and a fellow expatriate. "What a mess the young man's made . . . with his poetry pen . . . Warm the beer, Raul, there's an English gent/on duty." It has been almost exactly sixty-one years since London's "Black Saturday," the start of the worst of the Blitz during World War II. Joe is a survivor of the bombing, and his insistent story brings his lost neighbors back to share the terror and the peculiar beauty blooming in the chaos of their last days. Raul, the bartender, interrupts to brag about New York's wonders -- as we begin to understand that the city soon will face its own catastrophic moment in history.As Stone's memories grow more hallucinatory and the bar in New York ends another day, the chance encounter of two strangers takes on the inevitability of fate.

How The Hell Are You

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Author : Glyn Maxwell
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1529037743
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book How The Hell Are You written by Glyn Maxwell and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection from Glyn Maxwell – one of the great poetic stylists of the era, and one of its leading dramatic voices – is always a cause for celebration. Here, there are squibs and satires, lyrics and songs, poems written to family members and in memory of loved ones, a series of poems written by an artificial intelligence that will thrill and disturb in equal measure, and a chance for the blank page to finally speak for itself. But How The Hell Are You is, in its way, also a quietly political book: Maxwell regards poetry as truth-telling, and these poems – in their intimate, unsparing accounts and clear-eyed reckonings – recoil from the lies and fake news of the age to actually ‘tell it like it is’. How The Hell Are You shows a remarkable imagination and mind working at full tilt, and is the most powerful expression of Maxwell’s talent to date.

Beyond the Lyric

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Author : Fiona Sampson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448138663
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Lyric written by Fiona Sampson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British poetry is enjoying a period of exceptional richness and variety. This is exciting but it's also confusing, and throws up the need for an enthusiastic guide that can explain and celebrate the many parallel poetry projects now underway. Beyond the Lyric does just that. This is a book of enthusiasms: an intelligent and witty map of contemporary British poetry and a radical, accessible guide to living British poets, grouped for the first time according to the kind of poetry they write. In a series of groundbreaking new classifications, beginning with the bread-and-butter diction of the Plain Dealers and ending on the capacious generosity of the Exploded Lyric, it examines the broad range of contemporary tendencies – from the baroque swagger of the Dandies to the restrained elegance of the Oxford Elegists; from the layered, haunting verse of Mythopoesis to the inventive explorations of the New Formalists. By probing the cultural context from which these groups emerge and shifting the critical focus back to the work itself, Sampson’s astute analysis illuminates and demystifies each of these terms and asks the big questions about what makes a poem. The result is a celebration of poetry as a connected, responsive and above all communitarian form. Lively, engaging and inviting, this is the indispensible and authoritative guide for anyone who's ever wondered what's going on in British poetry today.

Pluto

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Author : Glyn Maxwell
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1743512015
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Pluto written by Glyn Maxwell and published by Picador. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant new collection from a major voice in contemporary poetry Pluto - the non-planet, the ex-planet - is the dominant celestial influence in Glyn Maxwell's new collection: Pluto is a book about change, the before-and-after of love, the aftermath of loss: change of status and station, home and place, of tense and pronoun. It also marks a radical departure for one of our most celebrated English poets: his formidable skills as a rhetorician and dramatist are suddenly directed inwardly, to produce poems of brutal self-examination, raw elegy, and strange songs of the kind those bruising encounters often leave us singing to ourselves. In Pluto, Maxwell has set out something like a metaphysic of the affair; the result is a lean and concentrated poetry of great emotional power, and far and away Glyn Maxwell's most directly personal work to date.

The Girl who was Going to Die

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Author : Glyn Maxwell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099516071
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Girl who was Going to Die written by Glyn Maxwell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain is reeling from reports of a terrorist bomb on a film set that has killed a hundred people and, possibly, the brightest star in Hollywood, Thomas Bayne. Caught up in the middle of the national mourning is Susan Mantle - a rather hopeless London tour-guide - who is seen crying on a park bench and is taken up by the media as a symbol of the blitz spirit, appearing on the rolling news with the headline 'beautiful but crying'. She is crying, though, for other reasons: she's just been told by a clairvoyant that she is about to die. Reason and the real world are quickly relinquished as Susan is swept into a media maelstrom, becoming the baffled and increasingly unwilling star of reality TV. Buffeted by the demands of her new public, and her private terrors about her own mortality, Susan starts to lose control of everything.

The Art of Poetry

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Author : Kenneth Koch
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472066056
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Poetry written by Kenneth Koch and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays, interviews, parodies and cartoons by a distinguished poet and teacher