Wales Book of the Year 2018. Winner of the 2018 Roland Mathias
Poetry Award. Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize. The
opening poem sequence, 'Diary of the Last Man', sets the tone for
Robert Minhinnick's book, a celebration of the dwindling Earth, an
elegy, a caution. His Wales is a touchstone; other landscapes and
cityscapes are tried against it, with its erratic weather, its
sudden changes of mood, 'a black tonic'. The sequence remembers all
the geographies of his earlier work, old and new world, but now
unpeopled and the lonely spirit free to go anywhere, do anything,
but meaning with mankind has drained away. Yet still alive, and
still with language, registering. The rest of the book is filled
with voices: of children, of rivers, terrorists, magicians; and
voices translated from the Welsh, and from Turkish and Arabic,
shared, enriching with their difference, their other worlds.
History washes over and washes up on the strand of this Welsh book.
It is seen and recognised, it begins to be transformed. In the long
concluding poem, 'The Sand Orchestra', the poet returns to his own
voice, and to the voice of a Bechstein piano abandoned in the open
air, played now by nature, its winds and sand. The last man, who
has been looking for Ulysses, is the very man he has been looking
for.
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