The Breakage: Poems - Softcover

In a fourth anthology of poetry, the critically praised poet presents a series of verse letters to English poet Edward Thomas, killed during World War I, that range in mood and form from the quietly introspective to the humorous. Reprint.

Glyn Maxwell is the author of nine books of poetry, including, most recently, The Sugar Mile. He is also a dramatist whose plays have been staged in New York, Edinburgh, and London. His latest play, Liberty, had its world premiere in the summer of 2008 at Shakespeare's Globe. 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. He lives in London.