Boys at Twilight
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Glyn Maxwell’s precocious, proli?c talent established him as one of the brightest talents to have emerged in British poetry over the past two decades. His debut collection Tale of the Mayor’s Son (1990) was a Poetry Book Society Choice. His second, Out of the Rain (1992) won him the Somerset Maugham Award. His third collection, Rest for the Wicked (1995), like his second, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He has since published several books with Faber and Picador. The Boys at Twilight lines up all the star poems from his three Bloodaxe collections. This is not just early but vintage Maxwell: the lad bursting on the scene with his strange narratives and edgy syntax, then transforming himself in the course of these three books into a modern master whose formal skills and much celebrated imaginative gifts have been surpassed by very few of his contemporaries.
Glyn Maxwell was born in 1962 in Welwyn Garden City, where he grew up. He studied English at Oxford and poetry at Boston University. His debut collection Tale of the Mayor’s Son (Bloodaxe Books, 1990) was a Poetry Book Society Choice. His second, Out of the Rain (Bloodaxe Books, 1992) won him the Somerset Maugham Award. His third collection, Rest for the Wicked (Bloodaxe Books, 1995), like his second, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990-1995 (Bloodaxe Books, 2000) is a selection from his first three poetry collections from Bloodaxe. He has since published several collections with Faber and Picador as well as writing for the theatre, opera and radio. His most recent titles include Pluto (Picador, 2013), One Thousands Nights and Counting: Selected Poems (Picador, 2011) and On Poetry (Oberon Masters, 2012).