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.
Editorial Reviews
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‘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 –Various
About the Author
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 the Forward Prize for best individual poem. His books of essays have twice won the Wales Book of the Year Prize. His first novel, Sea Holly, was published by Seren in 2007. Robert Minhinnick edited Poetry Wales magazine from 1997 to 2008. He co-founded Friends of the Earth (Cymru) and Sustainable Wales, and is an advisor to Sustainable Wales.
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