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King Driftwood
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- Book Synopsis
- King Driftwood teems with characters and narratives: treasure hunters, drug dealers, small-town eccentrics - blue-rinsed Mrs Dawes-Llewellyn, John the Song and Mothman, George Bush and Saddam Hussein glimpsed at a phantasmagoric funfair; the mourning women of Baghdad. Driven by a vigorous rhythmic energy, Robert Minhinnick's poems evoke the dense and different realities of communities, the cadences of voices and weather, shared maps of streets and cafés, custom and memory, that define life in Wales, Iraq and Argentina. To a vivid sense of the textures of place, Minhinnick brings the internationalism of twenty-five years' work in the environmental movement, an awareness of the dramas of the natural and human world that is profoundly political but never polemical. Cover painting Franz Marc (1880-1916), The Fox, 1913. Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany/ The Bridgeman Art Library. Cover design by StephenRaw.com.
- About The Author
- Robert Minhinnick's recent publications include the novels, Sea Holly (2007) and Limestone Man (2015)from Seren and Fairground Music: the World of Porthcawl Funfair (Gomer, 2010). He edited the international quarterly, Poetry Wales, 1997 - 2008, and received a major Creative Wales award in 2008 to write a collection of short stories about refugees, The Keys of Babylon (Seren, 2011). His poems have twice won the Forward Prize for 'best individual poem' and his essays have twice won Wales Book of the Year. An established environmentalist, he is joint founder of Friends of the Earth Cymru, 1984, and the charity, Sustainable Wales, founded 1997, for which he is a special advisor. A film, Diary of the Last Man made by Park6 Productions, is released in 2017.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781857549652
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Carcanet Poetry, (27 July 2008)
- Number of Pages
- 129
- Weight
- 181 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 135 x 13 mm
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