How The Hell Are You

A new collection from Glyn Maxwell one of the great poetic stylists of the era and one of its leading dramatic voices is always a cause for celebration. Here there are squibs and satires lyrics and songs poems written to family members and in memory of loved ones a series of poems written by an artificial intelligence that will thrill and disturb in equal measure and a chance for the blank page to finally speak for itself. But How The Hell Are You is in its way also a quietly political book: Maxwell regards poetry as truth-telling and these poems in their intimate unsparing accounts and clear-eyed reckonings recoil from the lies and fake news of the age to actually tell it like it is. How The Hell Are You shows a remarkable imagination and mind working at full tilt and is the most powerful expression of Maxwells talent to date.