Born in 1962 of Welsh origins, Glyn Maxwell studied English at Oxford and poetry at Boston, and teaches poetry in Massachusetts. But the sensibility driving his poems so far has been English boyishness. Through four collections, his astonishing technical facility can make syllables, vowels and ...
Scroll forward to 2008 and the LRB responds to the six poems I sent them, saying we’d like to take one of them. Well I didn’t scream with joy or turn cartwheels and I certainly didn’t leap from the earth’s crust. In fact my first thought was ‘You’d like to take one of ...
Nativity Poems | Joseph Brodsky; Translated by Melissa Green, Seamus Heaney, Anthony Hecht, Glyn Maxwell, Paul Muldoon, Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, and the author; Photographs by Mikhael Lemkhin | Macmillan AcademicBrodsky endeavored from the time he first "took to writing poems seriously" to...
Nativity Poems | Joseph Brodsky; Translated by Melissa Green, Seamus Heaney, Anthony Hecht, Glyn Maxwell, Paul Muldoon, Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, and the author; Photographs by Mikhael Lemkhin | MacmillanTo Him, all things seemed enormous: His mother's breast, the steam out of the ox'...