Glyn Maxwell

Glyn Maxwell

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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.

Thursday 6th Jun 2013: Robin Robertson and Glyn Maxwell at The Print Room

Robin Robertson and Glyn Maxwell will be doing readings as part of Poetry @ The Print Room

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Thursday 19th May 2011: Glyn Maxwell at Norwich Theatre

Glyn, author of the poetry collection One Thousand Nights and Counting, will be discussing poetry and his own work.

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Friday 15th Apr 2011: The Laugharne Festival

Anna Richards, Glyn Maxwell, Carol Ann Duffy, Jon Ronson, Paul Farley, Tristan Hughes, Roland Rivron will all be at this year’s Laugharne Festival, which runs from 15 April - 17 April.

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Monday 21st Mar 2011: Glyn Maxwell at Topping Booksellers in Bath

Award winning poet Glyn Maxwell Will be reading from and discussing his fantastic new poetry collection One Thousand Nights and Counting.
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Posted By Glyn Maxwell on Thursday 22nd Apr 2010
 

‘[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 

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