Book description
In Hide Now, Glyn Maxwell shows how the times have begun to warp time
itself: in the poet's vision, the past rears up again with its angry
ghosts, the present is racked by its martial and climatic nightmares,
and the future has already come and gone. All the stories of the earth
seem menaced by just one - to which nations cover their eyes and ears,
and from which the grown-ups run and hide. Scheherazade, Robespierre,
Dick Cheney and the Reverend Jim Jones all have their place here, though
the book's presiding genius is the lonely figure of Cassandra, cursed
with knowing the fate of a world that finds her screamingly funny. Glyn
Maxwell has established an international reputation as one of the most
intelligent and stylishly original English poets since Auden, and he has
never written with greater urgency or power. '[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
An established and critically-acclaimed poet, novelist and
playwright, Glyn Maxwell has previously won a Somerset Maugham award,
received the E. M.Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, and had three collections selected as New York Times
Notable Books of the Year. He's also been shortlisted for the
Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes.
