One summer's day, the peaceful life of a Suffolk village was disturbed forever by a strange visitation. Who were the two children who seemed to have come from nowhere, spoke no English, would eat no food and - most terrible of all--were green from head to toe? The 12th century monks who reluctantly chronicled the incident offered no rational explanation.   What matters to Maxwell in his passionate and beautiful portrait of this incident, is what do these children mean to each of the villagers - something to fear, to threaten, to exploit, to lust after, to love? Are they freaks or angels?   Wolfpit anatomizes a society faced by dreadful choices, a known world trembling on the verge of the miraculous.

"With a host of dexterous and nimbly honed lines and images, this young poet blends the brutally honest introspection of American poets like Frost and Lowell with accessible, lighthearted language reminiscent of mid-twentieth-century British masters like Auden and Betjeman"
- New York Times Notable Book Citation

"Glyn Maxwell is a superlative writer...[his] writing gleams with the wit of John Donne and is delivered in the rhythm of Shakespeare..."
The Scotsman ****

"uses language with an acuity that'll make other dramatists weep!"  
- London Time Out

Playwright Glyn Maxwell is a poet and playwright from Hertfordshire, England. He graduated from Oxford and studied poetry under Derek Walcott at Boston University. He has published several books of verse, including The Breakage (1998) Time's Fool (2000), and The Nerve (2002), all of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. In 1997 he was awarded the E.M.Forster Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2004 the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, for The Nerve. Several of his plays have been performed in Britain, including Broken Journey (a Time Out Critics' Choice in 1999), Anyroad and a workshop production of Wolfpit, which was also performed as a reading at the 92nd Street Y in 2002. The Lifeblood was the British Theatre Guide's 'Best Play on the Fringe' in 2004. His libretto for Elena Langer's The Girl of Sand premiered at the Almeida in London in 2003, and his libretto for Edward Dudley Hughes's version of Aristophanes' Birds will premiere in June 2005. He has taught at Princeton, Columbia, Amherst and the New School, and is currently the Poetry Editor of The New Republic.