Face to face

Glyn Maxwell read English at Oxford Univercity.  He moved to the USA in 1996 and in 1997 he was awarded the E. M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was Poetry Editor of the New Republic from 2001-2007, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

His first book of poetry, Tale of the Mayor's Son, was published in 1990. Out of the Rain (1992) won a Somerset Maugham Award, and Rest for the Wicked (1995) was shortlisted for both the Whitbread Poetry Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. The Breakage (1998), was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot and the Forward Poetry Prizes. His early books are collected as The Boys at Twilight, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, as were his two next books, Time's Fool (2000) and The Nerve (2002).  The Nerve also won the 2004 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His work features in The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945 (1998), The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 (1998), The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English (1999), and Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry (1999).

His latest poetry collection, Hide Now, was published in 2008, and shortlisted for the 2008 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2009 Forward Poetry Prize. A Selected Poems - One Thousand Nights and Counting, was published in 2011.

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