The Breakage: Poems

A series of verse letters to the English poet Edward Thomas, killed in the First World War, forms the centerpiece of this remarkable collection. Like most of the poems, it expresses a deep concern for England, past and present. Other poems, whether lyrical or narrative, comic or contemplative, explore love and fatherhood, triumph and longing. Some are adventures from the known to the ineffable; some draw on the poet's travels and his time living in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Author: Glyn Maxwell
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 04/24/2001
Pages: 95
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.54w x 0.32d
ISBN: 9780618126965

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/22/2001 pg. 32

About the Author
Maxwell, Glyn: - Glyn Maxwell is the author of several books of poetry, including The Sugar Mile. He is also a dramatist whose plays have been staged in New York, Edinburgh, and London. Among other honors, he has won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the E. M. Forster Prize. He was the poetry editor of the New Republic from 2001 to 2007.