My Mother was more a Small Investor than she was Queen Clytemnestra but she bought me shares in dreams, in doing not what is, but seems - you start out rhyming, she declared, but go your own way into dread with bed sores and bad words.
‘[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
