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by Glyn Maxwell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Picador (3 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330456245
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330456241
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 263,126 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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`Maxwell can be touching as well as didactic about human rootlessness'
--Financial Times


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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’

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4.0 out of 5 stars Read Now, 29 April 2009
Brilliant: it's great to read a contemporary poet not afraid of the basics of poetry - rhythm, rhyme, metre - and use them to outstanding effect.

Opener 'The Old Lad' has instantly become one of my favourite poems, and manages to be funny and angry simultaneously (the main character is on a plane 'beaming like a stewardess at the stewardess' - in one of several trademark, tricksy turns of phrase) and still remain elusive enough to demand repeated reading.

I'd even say I enjoyed some of the poems in 'Hide Now' more than anything I've read by his poet-mate Simon Armitage.

As with all books of poetry, I enjoyed some more than others but will be coming back to this collection time and again.
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