John Clare was a respected nature poet in the 1820's. But that's not how we meet him 20 years later in Adam Foulds' The Quickening Maze. Clare has been incarcerated in the High Beach asylum run by Dr. Matthew Allen, and he is mentally deteriorating despite the doctor's best efforts to help him. Clare believes... Continue Reading →
Interview with Adam Foulds
Adam Foulds is a British novelist and poet. His most recent books are The Quickening Maze, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the European Union Prize for Literature, and The Broken Word, which won the Costa Poetry Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. He has recently been... Continue Reading →
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