Glyn Maxwell

Michael Rosen explores the sound and rhythm of English with acclaimed poet Glyn Maxwell. From nursery rhymes and nonsense poetry to Shakespeare and Bob Dylan. Producer: Melvin Rickarby

In this podcast, recorded in August during the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Glyn Maxwell (http://www.glynmaxwell.com/) reads poems from his most recent collection Pluto (Picador) and talks with our Programme Manager, Jennifer Williams, about the breath and blood of poetry, how actors are the best first readers, why Auden is so important to his work and much more. Photo by David Shankbone.

Glyn Maxwell offers us a guide to reading poetry in seven chapters: ‘White’, ‘Black’, ‘Form’, ‘Pulse’, ‘Chime’, ‘Space’ and ‘Time’. Described by Katy Evans-Bush in Poetry Review as being ‘as highly charged as a stick of poetry dynamite’, On Poetry sold out its first printing in less than a week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Poet Glyn Maxwell opens the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize awards ceremony with a humorous keynote speech about how much fun poets have.

Poet Glyn Maxwell opens the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize awards ceremony with a humorous keynote speech about how much fun poets have.