Glyn Maxwell: From Another Time

Join us for a magical time with the celebrated poet Glyn Maxwell! Glyn graduated from Worcester College, Oxford, in 1985. His most recent collections are 'How The Hell Are You' (2020), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2020, and 'The Big Calls' (2023), a broadside against our government featuring poems on the UK’s Covid response, the treatment of migrants, Afghanistan, and Grenfell Tower in the forms of Tennyson, Kipling, Rossetti, and Wilde. He is currently writing 101 poems on 101 of the most endangered creatures on earth, entitled 'Extinction Songs'. Both books are available for free on Glyn’s Substack: 'Silly Games To Save The World'. His plays have been widely staged in the UK and USA. He is Head of Studies on the MA at The Poetry School. Come to Somerville to hear Glyn reading some of his poems, sharing his thoughts on the power of poetry and its relationship with the past, and join us for a poetic discussion after. Set to the background of the College Chapel, this promises to be a divine evening! ‘Genius. A work of both tradition and sedition, of essential political inquiry. Playful, erudite and passionate, a hymn to the state of the nation…’ – Joelle Taylor on 'The Big Calls' ‘A dazzling, heroic and virtuoso endeavour from one of our finest poets…’ – Carol Ann Duffy on 'The Big Calls'   ‘Glyn Maxwell covers a greater distance in a single line than most people do in a poem’ – Joseph Brodsky