After the Hurricane New Poems

by Minhinnick, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781857545630
• ISBN10: 185754563X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

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's is a major, rising voice-one that is attuned to the human diversity that at once graces and threatens the planet.

Table of Contents

Twenty-Five Laments for Iraq	7	(5)
The Bombing of Baghdad as seen from an Electrical Goods Shop	12	(1)
The Discovery of Radioactivity	13	(1)
The Orchids at Cwm y Gaer	14	(2)
Regulars	16	(1)
Elementary Songs	17	(5)
One Moment on the Avenida	22	(2)
Carioca	24	(2)
Questions of The Woman Who Fell	26	(4)
Samphire	30	(2)
Songs for the Lugmen	32	(4)
Lac la Ronge	36	(4)
Coyotes	40	(2)
A Natural History of Saskatchewan	42	(4)
Roadkill Blues	46	(15)
She Drove a 'Seventies Plymouth	61	(1)
Neolithic	62	(2)
After the Hurricane	64	(4)
Jack Kerouac Park	68	(3)
St Pat's	71	(2)
The Bear	73	(2)
The Hoopoe of Punta Ala	75	(1)
Voices from The Museum of the Mother of All Wars	76	(4)
A Welshman's Flora	80	(7)
Mr Multitude	87	(6)
The Ghost Orchids of Berdun	93	(5)
The Porthcawl Preludes	98	(8)
The Ziggurat	106	(5)
From the Rock Pool	111