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Diary of the Last ManRobert Minhinnick![]()
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ISBN: 978 1 784103 50 7 Categories: 21st Century, British, Welsh Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Published: April 2017 88 pages (print version) Publisher: Carcanet Press Also available in: Paperback, eBook (EPUB), eBook (PDF) Digital access available through Exact Editions
Wales Book of the Year 2018 Winner of the 2018 Roland Mathias Poetry Award Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize
Awards won by Robert Minhinnick
Short-listed, 2017 The T.S. Eliot Prize (Diary of the Last Man )
Winner, 2018 Wales Book of the Year (Diary of the Last Man )
Winner, 2018 Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Diary of the Last Man )
'This is environmentalism turned into elegy. It's so powerful, so political...These are serious poems for serious times..that will stay with you and make you think about what we're doing with the planet.'
Carolyn Hitt, Wales Book of the Year Awards Judge 'While Robert Minhinnick's Diary of the Last Man is rooted in the dunescapes of the author's hometown of Porthcawl, it is also a work that is intrinsically internationalist in outlook. The long title poem is a wry, standing-ovation-worthy requiem for humanity predominantly set on the Welsh coast but it could be argued that Minhinnick reserves his most powerful poetry for when he casts his eyes abroad.' Wales Arts Review Highlights of the Year 2017 'Diary of the Last Man presents an unsentimental, indifferent world, filled with cruelty and atrocity but, while there may be no Jesus in Minhinnick's geology, there is no shortage of beauty and, filtered through the sands of his language, this beauty is arresting and memorable.' Poetry blogger John Field on the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize newsletter 'It is in observing these cycles of sea and river, human and animal, that Minhinnick most excels, and his collection as a whole is beautifully and acoustically attuned to what is most precious in out lives and around us' Suzannah V Evans, New Welsh Review on Diary of the Last Man 'Robert Minhinnick's new collection confirms his status as one of the most important poets of these turbulent times. Bleakly elegiac, environmentally political, vital and visionary, his poems cast an extraordinary light over our darkening landscapes.' Carol Ann Duffy Praise for Robert Minhinnick 'After the Hurricane is a rich and rewarding collection, full of flinty fragments which light a bonfire of the imagination.' Planet: The Welsh Internationalist
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