Book review: The Other Side – The Poetry Society
Glyn Maxwell, Alan Gillis, Ben Wilkinson on poetic voice, formal prowess, and strange times . . . Paul Farley took the pulse at the turn of our millennium when he quipped that contemporary poets haven’t had criticism, they’ve had marketing. In an age where marketing’s role in matters aesthetic is ever-increasing, the individual voice can be an overvalued commodity, playing to a perceived appetite for poet-as-author. It is refreshing, then, to encounter Glyn Maxwell’s How the Hell Are You, a collection of poems whose unfashionably complex play with poetic voice recognises and exploi...
Source: poetrysociety.org.uk