or when facing other extremes and anxieties
Patience Agbabi and many more
It forms a sequel to Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella’s pioneering anthology
Pepper Seed is a wind at the reader’s back
these poems now resonate with each other in new and unexpected ways
Diary of the Last Man by Robert Minhinnick you are mistaken or when facing other extremesThe opening poem sequence, Diary of the Last Man, sets the tone for Robert Minhinnicks 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