Carcanet Press - New Selected Poems

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Here on
The Viking promontory, thin as its
Name and the hail flung off the skerry
We stop, breathless, laughing, looking
Round. We, the inheritors, looking round
To receive what we will never understand.
But beginning our occupation with faith.

from ‘Sker’

New Selected Poems is a poet’s choice of over thirty years’ work. Minhinnick’s poetry explores the complexities of belonging in the world. It is rooted in the rich particularity of industrial south Wales and the Welsh seaside resort in which he now lives, but its scope is global. New Selected Poems includes ‘An Opera in Baghdad’ as well as translations from six modern Welsh language poets; it mourns the ancient, savaged landscape of Iraq and listens to primeval echoes in the Welsh landscape; it celebrates the rhythms of the Americas. For Minhinnick, people, relationships and landscapes interconnect. The poetry that is true to that world is both lyrical and highly political.

Cover photograph © Robert Minhinnick

from A Thread in the Maze (1978)

Sap
Short Wave
A Live Tradition
Garlic Mustard, from Herbals
Dawn: Cwrt y Felin
1921: The Grandfather’s Story

from Native Ground (1979)

Ways of Learning
The Children
J.P.
Llangewydd
The Drinking Art
Insomnia
Sker

from Life Sentences (1983)

Rhys
Driving in Fog
Catching My Breath
An Address
On the Headland
Burmese Tales

from The Dinosaur Park (1985)

The Dinosaur Park
On the Llyn Fawr Hoard in the National Museum of Wales
Dock
Eelers
The Resort
Picking
from Breaking Down

from The Looters (1989)

The Looters
‘What’s the Point of Being Timid when the House is Falling Down?’
The Mansion
Epilogue
from Fairground Music
Men
In the Watchtower
Looking for Arthur

from Hey Fatman (1994)

Homework
Daisy at the Court
A History of Dunraven
Hey Fatman
Reunion Street
Listening to History
The Swimming Lesson

from After the Hurricane (2002)

The Bombing of Baghdad as seen from an Electrical Goods Shop
Twenty-Five Laments for Iraq
The Discovery of Radioactivity
Carioca
Songs for the Lugmen
She Drove a ’Seventies Plymouth
Neolithic
The Porthcawl Preludes
From the Rock Pool

from The Adulterer’s Tongue (2003)

Belly Button Song (from ‘Botwm i’r Botwm Bol’, by Menna Elfyn)
Taliesin (from ‘Taliesin’, by Emyr Lewis)
Beginning to Forget (from ‘Dechrau’r Anghofio’, by Gwyneth Lewis)
Landscape without a Hat (from ‘Tirlun heb Het’, by Bobi Jones)
A Song about Soup (from ‘Cawl’, by Elin ap Hywel)
Automobiles (from ‘Ceir’, by Iwan Llwyd)

from King Driftwood (2008)

An Opera in Baghdad
The Hourglass
La Otra Orilla
Eavesdropping
The Castaway
The Saint of Tusker Rock
The Fox in the National Museum of Wales

Index of Titles and First Lines

Robert Minhinnick was born in 1952 and lives in south Wales. He has published nine collections of poetry, including The Adulterer’s Tongue , translations of works by six Welsh poets. He has been the winner of a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award and a Cholmondeley Award, and has twice won ... read more

Praise for Robert Minhinnick 'Robert Minhinnick is the leading Welsh poet of his generation' - Sunday Times
'There is something imposing in the way he makes his chosen locale, the strand of Porthcawl, feel like the edge of the world, on which wash up echoes of world politics and broad sweeps of history.' - Philip Gross, Poetry London
'Minhinnick is one of the few poets who writes about a dockyard or a hedgerow with equal authority...A friend of mine once said that he liked to think of R.S.Thomas as "just being there": outside the media hubbub, steadily producing wonderful poems. Although Minhinnick's considerably younger, and more cosmopolitan in scope, I'd say the same about him.' - Poetry London
'Minhinnick is a poet of the moment...his best work takes you and places you slap bang in the middle of an experience. Like a mini tardis.' - The Big Issue
'Biodiversity is at the heart of what he writes about, backed up by a knowledge of archaeology and geology. He is now entering his mature phase and is already one of our most accomplished poets.' - The Western Mail

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New Selected Poems Robert Minhinnick RRP: GBP£ 12.95 Discount: 10% You Save: GBP£ 1.29 Price: GBP£ 11.65 Available Paperback ISBN: 978 1 847771 33 9 Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, Welsh Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Published: June 2012 196 pages Publisher: Carcanet Press Also available in: eBook (EPUB), eBook (Kindle) Description Excerpt Author Contents Reviews Here on The Viking promontory, thin as its Name and the hail flung off the skerry We stop, breathless, laughing, looking Round. We, the inheritors, looking round To receive what we will never understand. But beginning our occupation with faith. from ‘Sker’ New Selected Poems is a poet’s choice of over thirty years’ work. Minhinnick’s poetry explores the complexities of belonging in the world. It is rooted in the rich particularity of industrial south Wales and the Welsh seaside resort in which he now lives, but its scope is global. New Selected Poems includes ‘An Opera in Baghdad’ as well as translations from six modern Welsh language poets; it mourns the ancient, savaged landscape of Iraq and listens to primeval echoes in the Welsh landscape; it celebrates the rhythms of the Americas. For Minhinnick, people, relationships and landscapes interconnect. The poetry that is true to that world is both lyrical and highly political. Cover photograph © Robert Minhinnick from A Thread in the Maze (1978) Sap Short Wave A Live Tradition Garlic Mustard, from Herbals Dawn: Cwrt y Felin 1921: The Grandfather’s Story from Native Ground (1979) Ways of Learning The Children J.P. Llangewydd The Drinking Art Insomnia Sker from Life Sentences (1983) Rhys Driving in Fog Catching My Breath An Address On the Headland Burmese Tales from The Dinosaur Park (1985) The Dinosaur Park On the Llyn Fawr Hoard in the National Museum of Wales Dock Eelers The Resort Picking from Breaking Down from The Looters (1989) The Looters ‘What’s the Point of Being Timid when the House is Falling Down?’ The Mansion Epilogue from Fairground Music Men In the Watchtower Looking for Arthur from Hey Fatman (1994) Homework Daisy at the Court A History of Dunraven Hey Fatman Reunion Street Listening to History The Swimming Lesson from After the Hurricane (2002) The Bombing of Baghdad as seen from an Electrical Goods Shop Twenty-Five Laments for Iraq The Discovery of Radioactivity Carioca Songs for the Lugmen She Drove a ’Seventies Plymouth Neolithic The Porthcawl Preludes From the Rock Pool from The Adulterer’s Tongue (2003) Belly Button Song (from ‘Botwm i’r Botwm Bol’, by Menna Elfyn) Taliesin (from ‘Taliesin’, by Emyr Lewis) Beginning to Forget (from ‘Dechrau’r Anghofio’, by Gwyneth Lewis) Landscape without a Hat (from ‘Tirlun heb Het’, by Bobi Jones) A Song about Soup (from ‘Cawl’, by Elin ap Hywel) Automobiles (from ‘Ceir’, by Iwan Llwyd) from King Driftwood (2008) An Opera in Baghdad The Hourglass La Otra Orilla Eavesdropping The Castaway The Saint of Tusker Rock The Fox in the National Museum of Wales Index of Titles and First Lines Robert Minhinnick was born in 1952 and lives in south Wales. He has published nine collections of poetry, including The Adulterer’s Tongue , translations of works by six Welsh poets. He has been the winner of a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award and a Cholmondeley Award, and has twice won ... read more Praise for Robert Minhinnick 'Robert Minhinnick is the leading Welsh poet of his generation' - *Sunday Times* 'There is something imposing in the way he makes his chosen locale, the strand of Porthcawl, feel like the edge of the world, on which wash up echoes of world politics and broad sweeps of history.' - Philip Gross, Poetry London 'Minhinnick is one of the few poets who writes about a dockyard or a hedgerow with equal authority...A friend of mine once said that he liked to think of R.S.Thomas as "just being there": outside the media hubbub, steadily producing wonderful poems. Although Minhinnick's considerably younger, and more cosmopolitan in scope, I'd say the same about him.' - *Poetry London* 'Minhinnick is a poet of the moment...his best work takes you and places you slap bang in the middle of an experience. Like a mini tardis.' - The Big Issue 'Biodiversity is at the heart of what he writes about, backed up by a knowledge of archaeology and geology. He is now entering his mature phase and is already one of our most accomplished poets.' - *The Western Mail* You might also be interested in: Collected Poems Gillian Clarke Collected Poems Lynette Roberts, Edited by Patrick McGuinness	Share this... 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