The Lion's Face by Maxwell, Glyn

The Lion's Face (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781840029949)

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Format: Paperback
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The Lion's Face by Maxwell, Glyn

The Lion's Face

$14.95
The Lion's Face by Maxwell, Glyn

The Lion's Face

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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Compassionate, heartfelt and witty, The Lion's Face is a musical tale of love, loss and family bonds. Produced by the award-winning Opera Group, The Lion's Face explores the issues surrounding dementia. Featuring the beautiful poems of Glyn Maxwell as part of an operatic collaboration with composer Elena Langer.

Written for both children and adults, an earlier version of The Lion's Face won the Audience Prize at the 2009 New Opera Festival in Zurich. Premiered at London's Royal Opera House in 2010.

Author: Glyn Maxwell
ISBN-10: 1840029943
ISBN-13: 9781840029949
Publisher: Oberon Books
Language: English
Published: 09/07/2010
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.20d
By Glyn Maxwell
By Glyn Maxwell
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Glyn Maxwell was born in 1962 in Welwyn Garden City, England. He moved to the USA in 1996, teaching first at Amherst College, Massachusetts, then at Columbia University and The New School in New York City. In 1997 he was awarded the E. M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was appointed Poetry Editor at the New Republic in 2001, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

His first book of poetry, Tale of the Mayor's Son, was published in 1990. Out of the Rain (1992) won a Somerset Maugham Award, and Rest for the Wicked (1995) was shortlisted for both the Whitbread Poetry Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. The Breakage (1998), was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot and the Forward Poetry (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) Prizes.

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