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Glyn Maxwell (Author)
A history, a legend, a rumour, this book contains three stories drawn from the shadows of England… The Lifeblood depicts the last days of Mary Queen of Scots; Wolfpit brings…
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With contemporary settings, this title features young and adventurous plays. It includes Best Man Speech (a monologue), The Last Valentine , and Broken Journey ( Time Out Critics’ Choice).
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Glyn Maxwell’s The Nerve, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
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In the paperback edition of this one-of-a-kind novel, Maxwell takes writing exercises that he’s used in real classes, and explores them with fictional students and major poets.
Critically acclaimed collection of short essays and reflections on poetry, illustrating Maxwell’s poetic philosophy.
A man scours the underworld in search of his murdered bride. Can he save her from being killed again? This thriller is a work from acclaimed and award-winning poet/playwright Glyn…
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A decent man finds himself stalked and confronted by his own evil alter-ego. A new version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Gothic masterpiece, by Glyn Maxwell.
Acclaimed poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell’s sequel to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, which revolves around the characters’ search fro Malvolio, who hasn’t been seen since his humiliation twelve years earlier, where…
The brilliant new collection from a major voice in contemporary poetry
A series of loosely-connected monologues, combining observations about modern-day America with family reminiscences about wartime London
New play from critically acclaimed poet, described as the best dramatic poet now at work… by the Daily Telegraph
A haunting and powerful collection, The Nerve captures the strangeness and splendor of America in the twenty-first century. Glyn Maxwell’s characters include FBI agents, the Californian wild child Genie, a…
The finest poems from an internationally acclaimed writer
Developed by the award-winning The Opera Group (in association with the Institute of Psychiatry and the Wellcome Foundation), The Lions Face is a new opera which explores the issues surrounding…
On Poetry will be prized by writers and readers who wish to understand why and how poetic technique matters. Long regarded as one of Britain’s major poets, Glyn Maxwell shows…
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The poems in this volume were selected by Glyn Maxwell from TALE OF THE MAYOR’S SON (published in 1990, when he was twenty-eight), OUT OF THE RAIN (shortlisted for the…
A collection of three of Glyn Maxwell’s acclaimed plays for young people: Alice in Wonderland, Wind in the Willows, and Merlin and the Woods of Time.
Glyn Maxwell (Author),Luke Bedford
This is the long-awaited first opera from Luke Bedford featuring the libretto of award-winning poet Glyn Maxwell.
Edmond Rostand
The vivid and romantic rhymed couplets of Rostands classic play are displayed in all their glory by Ranjit Bolts new translation,commissioned and performed by Bristol Old Vic.
Kenneth Grahame
New adaptation of an English Classic, suitable for all ages
A new adaptation of the classic Cyrano de Bergerac by acclaimed playwright and poet Glyn Maxwell.
Meek little Mole, wilful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant, boastful Toad: over one hundred years since their first appearance in 1908, they’ve become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly…
