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New Selected PoemsRobert Minhinnick10% off eBook (EPUB)
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Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, Welsh
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jul 2012) 9781847776457 £12.95 £11.65 Paperback (180 pages) (Pub. Jun 2012) 9781847771339 £12.95 £11.65 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
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
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 )
Praise for Robert Minhinnick
'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 '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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