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New Selected Poems
Robert Minhinnick
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Description for New Selected Poems
Paperback. The essential poems of a multi award-winning Welsh writer and environmentalist. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 248. 180 pages. The essential poems of a multi award-winning Welsh writer and environmentalist. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 15. Weight: 248.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847771339
SKU
V9781847771339
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About Robert Minhinnick
Robert Minhinnick was born in Wales in 1952. He is a poet, essayist, translator, novelist and short story writer. His poetry has twice won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem. His novel, Sea Holly (2007) was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. He edited Poetry Wales Magazine from 1997 to 2008. He has performed his work in North ... Read more
Reviews for New Selected Poems
'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 ... Read more