Word: deliveryã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...someone who has been, variously, described as “a poet of immense promise and unforgettable delivery?? (Brodsky), and “England’s brightest new poet for a decade” (Peter Forbes in Poetry Review), Glyn Maxwell is curiously unknown in the U.S. I had attributed this to the same sort of infuriating blindness that means none of my British friends have heard of Jorie Graham. Perusing his last book of lyric poems (The Breakage, Mariner Books) before Wednesday’s reading only seemed to confirm, though, that here was the most...
This poem, like much of Maxwell’s work, works out of a specific location in his own childhood. He read it polyphonically, letting the dry and witty formal turns rub against a more casual, Londoner-in-a-pub style of delivery??a pleasure in the poem as story. Before this reading, my acquaintance with Maxwell’s work was limited to his earliest poems, some of which, as he has himself admitted, are formally tight to the point of obliquity, and a sort of surreal terseness...