Diary of the Last Man

by Robert Minhinnick

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784103489
• ISBN13: 9781784103484
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 8.5"