Identity area
Reference code
BXB/1/1/MAX
Title
Glyn Maxwell
Date(s)
- 1990 - 2000 (Creation)
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Subseries
Extent and medium
4 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
(1962-)
Biographical history
Glyn Maxwell was born in 1962 in Welwyn Garden City, where he grew up. He studied English at Oxford and poetry at Boston University. As well as his four poetry books, he has published a novel, Blue Burneau (Chatto, 1994), shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Prize, and three verse plays in Gnyss the Magnificent (Chatto, 1993). He currently teaches poetry at Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife and daughter.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Consists of letters and proofs relating to the published poetry works of Glyn Maxwell.