King Driftwood

Written with current events in mind, the latest poems from Welsh poet Robert Minhinnick display his keen awareness of both climate change and the current situation in the Middle East. Drawing upon the poet's firsthand travels in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Argentina, and his 25 years in the environmental movement, these volatile poems address the political and environmental destruction wrought by the ongoing war in Iraq. Full of vigorous musicality and rhythmic energy, these poems introduce a cast of memorable charactersfrom treasure-hunters and drug dealers to ancient Celtic warriors and eccentrics from the local funfair.

Robert Minhinnick is the editor of Poetry Wales and the author of The Adulterer's Tongue and After the Hurricane. His essay collection, To Babel and Back, won the 2006 Wales Book of the Year award. He is also the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, a John Morgan Award, and two Arts Council of Wales Literature Prizes.

The Fox in the National Museum of Wales	p. 1
Madonna in Portheawl	p. 3
The Dolphin	p. 6
The Cormorant	p. 7
An Isotope, Dreaming	p. 9
An Opera in Baghdad	p. 19
King Driftwood meets the Viper	p. 27
On Listening to Glenn Gould Play Bach's Goldberg Variations	p. 29
The Hourglass	p. 39
La Otra Orilla	p. 48
King Driftwood and the Vagabond Surf	p. 58
St. John's Sunflowers	p. 60
Eavesdropping	p. 64
The Castaway	p. 65
At a Riverside Cafe in Uzupis	p. 71
The Minotaur	p. 73
In a Fever Hospital	p. 75
Photographing an Orchid	p. 84
To Those on the Promontory	p. 88
Return of the Natives	p. 97
A Porthcawl Dolphin	p. 100
The Fairground Scholar	p. 101
Sageflowers for Charles Saatchi	p. 109
Paradise	p. 111
The Weighbridge	p. 113
The Saint of Tusker Rock	p. 115
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