Glyn Maxwell (born 1962) is a British poet, playwright, novelist,

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, and lecturer.

Early life

Of primarily Welsh heritage — his mother Buddug-Mair Powell (b. 1928) acted in the original stage show of

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's ''

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'' in the West End and on

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in 1956 — Maxwell was born and raised in

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. His father James Maxwell (1928-2016) was an industrial chemist. Maxwell has two brothers, Alun (b. 1960), and David (b. 1964). His cousin Kerry Lee Powell is a noted Canadian writer. He studied English at

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. He began an MLitt there but dropped out. In 1987 he moved to America to study poetry and drama with

Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem ''Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcot ...

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

. He returned to the UK and began publishing poetry in the 1990s. After his marriage and the birth of his daughter Alfie in 1997, he moved with his family to the USA, living and teaching at first in Amherst, Massachusetts, and then in New York City. He returned to the UK in 2006. In the years 1991, 1993 and 1995, Maxwell staged performances of his plays in his parents' garden in

. These were featured in the national press and on radio.

Poetry

His three earliest collections of poetry, ''Tale Of The Mayor's Son'' (1990), ''Out of the Rain'' (1992), ''Rest For The Wicked'' (1995) are collected as ''The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990-1995'' (2000). ''The Nerve'' won the

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in 2004. All his other collections of poems - ''The Breakage'', ''Hide Now'' and ''Pluto'' - have been shortlisted for either the T.S.Eliot,

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, or Costa (formerly Whitbread) Prizes. He was awarded the

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' Cholmondeley Prize for his poetry in 2014. In 1994 he was named one of the

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and he received the

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in 1997. His most recent collections are ''One Thousand Nights and Counting: Selected Poems'' and ''Pluto''. His work appears in several anthologies of the best of 20th century poetry. In 1999 Maxwell left

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as a result of editorial disagreement over his poem ''Time's Fool,'' and his work has since been published by

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in the UK. In the US he has been published by

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and

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. In 2014 he edited a collected edition of the poems of

, ''The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948–2013''. His next book of poetry, ''How The Hell Are You'', will be published by Picador in 2020.

Film

In 2018, the rights to Maxwell's epic poem ''Time's Fool'' (1999) were optioned by the film director Paul King and the screenwriter Jon Croker, and subsequently bought by

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for development as a feature film, with King and Croker as writers, and

David Heyman David Jonathan Heyman (born 26 July 1961) is a British film producer and the founder of Heyday Films. Heyman secured the rights to the ''Harry Potter'' film series in 1999 and went on to produce all eight installments of the franchise. He als ...

as producer. Maxwell co-wrote the screenplay for ''The Beast In The Jungle'', a dance-film based on the

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novella, with the film's director Clara Van Gool. The film premiered at the

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in February 2019. It will also feature at the film festivals of Goteborg, San Francisco, New York and Shanghai.

Prose

Maxwell's critical guidebook ''On Poetry'' (

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, 2012) was described by Adam Newey in ''

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'' as 'the best book about poetry I've ever read' and by Hugo Williams in ''

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'' as 'a modern classic'. A stand-alone sequel, titled ''Drinks With Dead Poets: The Autumn Term'' and set in a mysterious village, was published by Oberon in October 2016. In this 'brilliantly unclassifiable' work, several deceased poets appear as characters, their speech taken ''verbatim'' from their writings. A sequel, ''Last Night In England'', is in process. His first novel, ''Blue Burneau'' (1994), was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Prize and the book ''Moon Country'', published in 1996, describes a visit to

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with

Simon Armitage Simon Robert Armitage (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright, musician and novelist. He was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019. He is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds. He has published over 20 collections of poetr ...

. His second novel, ''The Girl Who Was Going To Die,'' was published in 2008 by Cape in the UK and by Kunstmann in Germany.

Drama

Plays include ''After Troy'' (dir. Alex Clifton), a retelling of

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' '' Women of Troy'' and ''Hecabe'' (

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/ Shaw Theatre London), ''Lily Jones's Birthday'' a satyr-play based on

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' ''

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'', which premiered at

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in 2009; ''Liberty'', about the French Revolution, which premiered at

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in the 2008 season (dir. Guy Retallack) and toured the UK. In New York, ''Agamemnon Home'' (dir. Amy Wagner) received its world premiere in April 2012. Several of Maxwell's plays and adaptations have been staged at Chester's Grosvenor Park Open-Air Theatre, or in the city's new Storyhouse Theatre, which opened in 2017 under the Artistic Directorship of Alex Clifton: these were ''Merlin and the Woods of Time'' (2011, dir. Alex Clifton), ''Masters Are You Mad?'' (2012, dir. Robin Norton-Hale), ''Cyrano De Bergerac'' (2013, dir. Lucy Pitman-Wallace), ''Wind in the Willows'' (2015, dir. Alex Clifton), ''The Beggar's Opera'', a new version of the John Gay classic, (2017, dir. Alex Clifton), ''Alice in Wonderland'' (2017, dir. Derek Bond) and ''The Secret Seven'' (2017, dir. Alex Clifton). ''Wind in the Willows'' and ''The Secret Seven'' were both nominated as 'Best Play For Young People' at the British Theatre Awards. His eighth play for Chester, ''Jekyll and Hyde'', played in autumn 2019 at Storyhouse. His version of ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' was also staged at

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in 2016 (dir. Russell Bolam) starring Kathryn Hunter. Others recent plays include ''Babette's Feast'' (2017, dir. Bill Buckhurst), starring

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, Diana Quick and Joseph Marcell. ''The Lifeblood'', concerning the last days of

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, was British Theatre Guide's 'Play of the

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' at Edinburgh in 2004, and was directed by Guy Retallack with Sue Scott Davison as Mary. ''The Lifeblood'' was first performed at the

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in 2001 with Felicity Wren as Mary.
British Theatre Guide. Retrieved 2009-11-08 His play ''Mimi and The Stalker'' was one of six projects awarded funding by the

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in the spring 2009 quarter, for development as a screenplay under the name ''Witchgrass.'' Other plays include ''Wolfpit'', about two green children said to have appeared in Suffolk in the 12th century (Edinburgh 1996; New York 2006), ''The Forever Waltz'', a reworking of the

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story (New York 2005; Edinburgh 2005), and ''The Only Girl in the World'', a play about Mary Kelly, the last victim of

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(Hoxton Hall, 2001, Arcola, 2008). He contributed the fantasy ''The Black Remote'' to the National Theatre's Connections series in 2006. He is the Resident Playwright for New York's Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, who have staged ''Broken Journey'', ''Wolfpit'', ''The Lifeblood'' and ''Agamemnon Home'' in New York, and will present ''The Gambler'' (after Dostoevsky's novella) in January 2016 at the Wild Project in the East Village. His verse monologue, ''The Best Man'', was turned into a feature film starring Danny Swanson (dir. Jon Croker). Several of Maxwell's plays and opera libretti are published by Oberon Books. Maxwell directed his own play ''The City of Tomorrow'' at the

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, Welwyn Garden City, in 2020, as part of the centenary celebrations of his home town.

Interviews

Glyn Maxwell was interviewed about his verse drama plays on the podcast '' Hamlet to Hamilton: Exploring Verse Drama'', hosted by

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and Colin Kovarik.

Radio

His radio plays for

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and

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include: ''Lexicon'' (2015, dir. Toby Swift, starring Sally Phillips), ''Time For One More Question'', (2015, dir. Nadia Molinari, a celebration of the Hay Festival), ''Shakespeare's Fire'', (2015, dir. Frank Stirling, starring Jane Horrocks), ''Cyrano De Bergerac'', (2015, dir. Susan Roberts, starring Tom Burke), ''The City of Tomorrow'', (2014, dir. Tim Dee, starring Pippa Haywood and Julian Rhind-Tutt), ''The Gambler'' (2009, dir. Guy Retallack, starring Patricia Routledge) and ''Childminders'' (2006, dir. Peter Kavanagh, starring Olivia Williams). In 1994 he travelled to

with his friend and fellow-poet Simon Armitage, to make a series for Radio 3. This became the travelogue ''Moon Country'' (Faber, 1996). In 1996 they travelled to

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for another Radio 3 series, ''To Bahia and Beyond.''

Opera

Maxwell's libretto for David Bruce's '' The Firework Maker's Daughter'', (2013, dir. John Fulljames, based on the Philip Pullman story) was nominated for an

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in 2014. It played at the Linbury in the

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, as well as in New York and a UK tour. His other operas include

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's ''Seven Angels'', premiered at

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in June 2010 before a UK tour, and

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's opera ''The Lion's Face'', which toured the UK in 2009. A short version of ''The Lion's Face'', (then titled ''The Present'') won the Audience Prize at the Zurich Opera House's New Opera Festival in January 2009. His other libretti include ''The Girl of Sand'', also composed by Elena Langer and performed at the Almeida Opera Festival in 2004, and ''The Birds'' (after

), composed by Edward Dudley Hughes and performed by

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at the

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in 2005. In 2016, Maxwell collaborated with David Bruce again, on ''

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'', an opera adapted from the book by Janne Teller. This was staged at

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in 2016 (dir. Bijan Sheibani) and subsequently at

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Journalism, Editorial

Maxwell was Poetry Editor of ''

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'' from 2001 to 2007. He has reviewed for the ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

''. He is a Fellow of the

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and the

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Teaching

Maxwell has taught at

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, Princeton, Columbia, NYU and The New School in the USA, and at The Universities of

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and

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in the UK. He currently teaches on the M.A. at The Poetry School in London.

Current life

Maxwell has one daughter, Alfreda Rose Maxwell (b. 13 March 1997, known as AlfieThe Peerage , A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe
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Islington in London.

References

External links

Author biography at contemporarywriters.comWebsite for the film version of ''The Best Man''The Execution of Saint-Just at Thermidor
Maxwell poem published in ''

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