After the hurricane / Robert Minhinnick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minhinnick, Robert, 1952-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

119 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet, 2002.

Summary:

Robert Minhinnick is alive to his environment: indeed he has worked for Friends of the Earth and has a scientist's regard for facts and particulars. The poet in him sees into the facts of environment and history. After the Hurricane is his first book since Selected Poems, and it is safe now to declare what seemed likely from his earlier books; that Minhinnick is a major voice, attuned to the particulars of his own threatened environment, and to the human and natural calamities that undermine our environmental and mental ecologies. The geographical range of the poet's imagination is as wide as his travels have been. The poems are alive also to human diversity which at once graces and threatens the planet.

Contents:

Twenty-Five Laments for Iraq 7

The Bombing of Baghdad as seen from an Electrical Goods Shop 12

The Discovery of Radioactivity 13

The Orchids at Cwm y Gaer 14

Regulars 16

Elementary Songs 17

One Moment on the Avenida 22

Carioca 24

Questions of The Woman Who Fell 26

Samphire 30

Songs for the Lugmen 32

Lac la Ronge 36

Coyotes 40

A Natural History of Saskatchewan 42

Roadkill Blues 46

She Drove a 'Seventies Plymouth 61

Neolithic 62

After the Hurricane 64

Jack Kerouac Park 68

St Pat's 71

The Bear 73

The Hoopoe of Punta Ala 75

Voices from The Museum of the Mother of All Wars 76

A Welshman's Flora 80

Mr Multitude 87

The Ghost Orchids of Berdun 93

The Porthcawl Preludes 98

The Ziggurat 106

From the Rock Pool 111.

ISBN:

185754563X

OCLC:

48978856