After The Hurricane: New Poems; Author: Minhinnick, Robert; Paperback (C Format)

Author: Minhinnick, Robert
Paperback (C Format)
119 pages
Published: May 2002
Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN: 185754563X

Intensely aware of the earth's threatened environment and its cultural turmoil, this new collection of poems recalls Minhinnick's travels through Canada, Iraq, Brazil, America, and his native Wales. This verse ventures through the historically hidden, employing images of archaeology, mining, geology, and the author's own complex biography to uncover what might be reclaimed. Minhinnick'sis a major, rising voice-one that is attuned to the human diversity that at once graces and threatens the planet.The first book from Robert Minhinnick since 'Selected Poems'. Robert Minhinnick is alive to his environment: he has a scientist's regard for facts. The poet in him sees into the facts of landscape and history. He visits various pasts, using images of archaeology, mining, geology and his own layered biography to uncover what might be reclaimed.