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King Driftwood
Robert Minhinnick
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Description for King Driftwood
Paperback. Written with a keen awareness of both climate change and the situation in the Middle East, this work features poems that draws upon the poet's travels in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Argentina, and his 25 years in the environmental movement. It also includes politically-charged poems such as "An Opera in Baghdad" and "An Isotope, Dreaming". Num Pages: 129 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 178.
The poems in Welsh poet Robert Minhinnick's latest collection were written with a keen awareness of both climate change and the current situation in the Middle East. King Driftwood draws upon the poet's travels in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Argentina, and his 25 years in the environmental movement. Politically-charged poems such as "An Opera in Baghdad" and "An Isotope, Dreaming" address the political and environmental destruction wrought by the ongoing war in Iraq. Moving closer to home, poems such as "The Saint of Tusker Rock" and "The Castaway" are vivid evocations of the historical and modern communities of ... Read more
The poems in Welsh poet Robert Minhinnick's latest collection were written with a keen awareness of both climate change and the current situation in the Middle East. King Driftwood draws upon the poet's travels in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Argentina, and his 25 years in the environmental movement. Politically-charged poems such as "An Opera in Baghdad" and "An Isotope, Dreaming" address the political and environmental destruction wrought by the ongoing war in Iraq. Moving closer to home, poems such as "The Saint of Tusker Rock" and "The Castaway" are vivid evocations of the historical and modern communities of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
129
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857549652
SKU
V9781857549652
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Ref
99-25
About Robert Minhinnick
Robert Minhinnick was born in 1952 and lives in south Wales. He has been the winner of a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award, and has twice won the Forward Prize for best individual poem, while his books of essays have twice won the Wales Book of the Year Prize. Robert Minhinnick edited Poetry Wales magazine from 1997 ... Read more
Reviews for King Driftwood
Robert Minhinnick is the leading Welsh poet of his generation.The Sunday TimesMinhinnick 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 ... Read more