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 "
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