HOW THE HELL ARE YOU

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A new collection from Glyn Maxwell - one of the great poetic stylists of the age, and one of its leading dramatic voices - is always a cause for celebration. With what often feels like an uncanny prescience, How The Hell Are You offers an urgent take on the changing nature of human encounter, at a time when the future seems to have gone ahead without us. This is a book of the left-behind, of the prematurely self-isolated: there are the sonnets left behind by abandoned artificial intelligence, moving poems of memorial and elegy, lost souls, seduced by the empty nostalgia for imperialism, when all has already been lost, voices torn from their owners, bewildered in empty space - and the voice of that space itself, as the blank page grabs the microphone and finally has its say. Maxwell has long regarded poetry as truth-telling, and these often subversively political poems recoil from the lies and fakery of the age to actually 'tell it like it is', though how it is is not how we would have it. In its gripping, clear-eyed reckoning, How The Hell Are You is as bold a document of the times as any contemporary poet has yet produced.