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RESULTSSearching enCompass books for 'Robert Minhinnick'... We found 8 matches.
Robert Minhinnick
The Adulterer's Tongue: An Anthology of Welsh Poetry in Translation The Adulterer's Tongue casts a light on the world of Welsh-language poetry. Poetry has been written in Welsh for over 1000 years: an ancient literature, it is also a vibrant part of the culture of modern Europe, often ignored by English speakers. Robert Minhinnick's translations bring six contemporary Welsh language poets into the spotlight, providing the Welsh texts en face.The poets are Bobi Jones, Menna Elfyn, Emyr Lewis, Iwan Llwyd, Gwyneth Lewis and Elin ap Hywel. Minhinnick, himself a leading poet, is conscious of the responsibilities of translating out of a minority language. His versions take risks, but honour the originals' forms and intentions, making audible a wide array of individual styles and voices. The poets here each in different ways remake the language and culture they inherit. This collection testifies to the abiding creative energy of Welsh language and culture.
Carcanet Press 2003 pbk £9.95 ISBN 1-85754-644-X
 Author photo: © Peter Jaques ( peterdavidjaques@yahoo.co.uk )
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A1d58c25E5CyUw369EA16
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Robert Minhinnick
After the Hurricane Robert Minhinnick sees radiation sickness in orchids, joy-riding in sodium and 'amphetamine brilliance' in the sky. Natural philosopher for a nuclear age, he details without compromise a world as harsh as it is beautiful.
1998 Cholomondeley Prize
Carcanet Press 2002 pbk £6.95 ISBN 1-85754-563-X
Author photo: © Peter Jaques (peterdavidjaques@yahoo.co.uk )
Robert Minhinnick
King Driftwood 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 the Welsh coast, where the poet lives. They introduce us to a cast of memorable characters, from treasure-hunters to drug dealers, from ancient Celtic warriors to eccentrics from the local funfair. A sensitivity to the sonic structures of Welsh language poetry runs throughout the book, lending the poems their vigorous musicality and rhythmic energy.
Carcanet Press 2008 pbk £9.95 ISBN 978-1857549652
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A1d58c25E5CyUw369EA16
Robert Minhinnick
Sea Holly Sea Holly tells the story of John Vine, a hard working English teacher who has left job and family and moved to a nearby coastal caravan park, calling bingo numbers for a living. "John Vine - He has it all. Home, family, career. You can't knock that. But he has this worm inside him, this dissatisfaction...A boy of twenty, that's OK, he's going to dream. But a man of fifty? With a young piece who thinks he's not half bad?...believe me that's when everything's going to come loose. That's when it's going to get dangerous.' Key to the novel is a deeply rooted sense of place: a seaside town of shifting sand, illegal immigrants, a decaying funfair with it's own 'kingdom of evil', amusement arcades and dubious pubs and clubs, existing cheek by jowl with town houses and middle-class intelligentsia. The narrative stretches over one week and is told by several different characters.
Seren Books 2007 Paperback £7.99 ISBN 978-1854114358
Robert Minhinnick
Selected Poems This text draws on six previous collections published between 1978 and 1994. The earlier poems are diverse, ranging from descriptions of work in heavy industry to observations of wildlife around the writer's childhood home in Wales. Later poems deal with travel in Brazil and the United States, and also deal with schizophrenia. The book celebrates the life and characters of a close-knit community. It then breaks away from the peopled landscape to consider history and culture from wider persepectives.
Carcanet 1999 pbk £6.95 ISBN 1-85754-383-1
Author photo: © Peter Jaques ( peterdavidjaques@yahoo.co.uk )
Robert Minhinnick
To Babel and Back Join Robert Minhinnick on a journey across a radioactive planet. Researching the use of depleted uranium in modern weapons, the writer follows a deadly trail from the uranium mines of the USA into Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Here, he is led into the temples of a deserted Babylon and to what his guides insist is the site of the Tower of Babel. Interspersed with these 'radioactive writings', which seem part documentary, part dream, are essays on a host of different places. Minhinnick pursues Dante through Florence, and searches for a poem given to him by a murdered schoolgirl in south Wales. Berlin, Prague, Buenos Aires, New York, Italy, England, Finland, Canada: this globalised world is simultaneously familiar and bizarre, filled with the background noise of contemporary society yet capable of providing places and moments of utter silence. Jetlagged, culture-lagged, Minhinnick returns to his native Wales, its coastline and valleys as extraordinary as anything encountered in a Babel that might be myth or alarmingly real. 2006 Wales Book of the Year
Seren Books 2005 pbk £7.99 ISBN 1854114018
Author photo: © Peter Jaques ( peterdavidjaques@yahoo.co.uk )
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A1d58c25E5CyUw369EA16
Menna Elfyn, Elin Ap Hywel & Robert Minhinnick
Edited by Gillian Clarke Perfect Blemish/Perffaith Nam Menna Elfyn is the best-known, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets. The extraordinary international range of her subjects, breathtaking inventiveness and generosity of vision place her among Europe's leading poets. This bilingual edition of her later poetry includes work from Cell Angel (1996) and Blind Man's Kiss/Cusan Dyn Dall (2001), as well as the first English translations of Perffaith Nam (2005) and a selection of new poems.
Bloodaxe 2007 Paperback £12.00 ISBN 978-1852247799
Edited by Robert Minhinnick
The Green Agenda : The Environment of Wales Is rural Wales a green museum in which conservationists act as curators? Would a Welsh parliament allow developers to exploit Wales' mineral wealth at any cost? Why does burning coal in Derbyshire mean more rhododendrons in Snowdonia? Is urban Wales the environment of the majority? Why are most Welsh people apathetic about green issues? These questions, and many others, are tackled in this collection of essays by some of Wales' leading writers and campaigners, including Lord Elis Thomas, Alwyn Jones, Robert Minhinnick, John Barnie and Neil Caldwell. Written for the lay-person, as well as the student or researcher, the book describes present environmental problems and suggests solutions.
Seren Books 1994 pbk £7.95 ISBN 1-85411-101-9
Author photo: © Peter Jaques (peterdavidjaques@yahoo.co.uk )
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