The Sugar Mile Houghton Mifflin US, 2005/Picador UK 2005
'You have to go back to Auden's The Orators to find dramatic verse to equal Glyn Maxwell's. Here, for our jittery wartime age, is a poem for many voices, which moves between Manhattan (captured just before 9/11) and the London of the Blitz. Technically, The Sugar Mile is astonishingly assured: it conjures a crowd of Londoners and New Yorkers from different periods of history and shapes their distinctive, free voices into disciplined verse...It is clearly the work of the major poet of his generation, boldly expanding the canvas and means of his art.' James Wood
'A bold, beautiful, and deeply rewarding poem' - Helen Dunmore, The Observer
The Nerve Houghton Mifflin US, 2002/Picador UK, 2002
'All of us who admire the poems of Glyn Maxwell will be delighted by The Nerve, and Robert Frost himself would have liked the way he 'gets things right' - Anthony Hecht
The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990-95
Houghton Mifflin US, 2000/Bloodaxe UK, 2000
Brilliant...The feeling that life is somehow being missed is a central theme of modern English poetry, from William Empson to Philip Larkin. The Boys At Twilight belongs to this lyric tradition - New York Times Book Review
The Breakage Houghton Mifflin US, 1999/Faber UK 1998
Beautiful and moving and authentic poetry can be written today, and we know this not least because Glyn Maxwell is writing it’– The New Republic
With a host of dextrous and nimbly honed lines and images, this young poet blends the brutally honest introspection of American poets like Frost and Lowell with accessible, lighthearted language reminiscent of mid-twentieth-century British masters like Auden and Betjeman - New York Times Notable Book Citation, 1999
His range is vast, his energy unlimited, his temperement restless and risk-taking...Maxwell looks well on his way to becoming the complete modern English poet - Poetry Review
Out of the Rain Bloodaxe UK, 1992
Maxwell is one of the few poets in recent years to have invented a style - The Independent
Tale of the Mayor's Son Bloodaxe UK, 1990
Glyn Maxwell covers a greater distance in a single line than most people do in a poem - Joseph Brodsky
A twisty thriller of assassination, war and revolution – The Independent on Sunday
Travel
Moon Country: Further Reports From Iceland (with Simon Armitage)
Faber UK, 1996
No-one treats English quite like the clapped-out motor Maxwell clearly thinks it is. He kicks it, he re-vamps it, he customizes it. He leads you up syntactic blind alleys and gets you doing semantic U-turns that leave the hair bristling - Adam Thorpe, Observer
