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Glyn Maxwell

Glyn Maxwell is a poet, playwright, novelist, librettist, and critic. He studied English at Oxford and poetry at Boston University. His volumes of poetry include The Breakage, Hide Now, and Pluto, all of which were shortlisted for either the Forward or T. S. Eliot Prizes, and The Nerve, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. 

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January

By Glyn Maxwell

Winter 2007

On the seventh, eighth, and fifteenth balconies strung colored lights persist through January. Somebody needs them, somebody forgot them, somebody said about them forget them it’s cold. Dismantling the damn things at all may be a stickin [...]

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Dead on a Side Track: On Frost’s “War Thoughts at Home”

By Glyn Maxwell

Fall 2006 | Essays

Abandon hope of sober analysis here: a new Frost poem has surfaced. There is something new in the old voice, another song in a stanza-form packed with salt and built to last, another note struck upon war broken out far away and near while another war breaks out far away and near: it’s a giddying moment for one who reached a point of such identification with that voice that he could no longer write in anything but, and trod the lanes of Amherst helplessly trying to compose in it, who did his own impressions of it at his own open mike in the woods, who wrote one last witless parody of it as some kind of shot at good riddance.

 

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Suddenly Signs

By Glyn Maxwell

Summer 2006 | Poetry

  Suddenly signs along the way were new, not seen before, but those too petered out. Now he was on a route            his own mistake            [...]

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