Books Books
Category: Anthologies, Fiction, Poetry, Poetry Anthologies
Number of pages: 102
ISBN: 9781854111555
Publication date: October 20, 1995
Price: £5.95
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Drawing Down the Moon is an anthology of work from Welsh writers in 1996. Inevitably the reader will identify glaring omissions and infuriating choices here. Where are the young writers? Is there enough political writing? Has the urban muse been given its due? Such is the deliciously contentious nature of the annual anthology. So read on as the male establishment of Welsh letters rubs tentative shoulders with the younger women who now produce many of the best things to appear in literary Wales. And prepare to take issue with an editorial that castigates the jottings of middle-class incomers and forecasts that the future writers of English-speaking Wales will not hail from the semi-anglicised, working-class south and north-east, but the Welsh-speaking heartlands. Drawing Down the Moon seeks to reflect a country in the process of shedding its exhausted mythologies. The nineties post-modern, post-industrial Wales it reveals is both exciting and confusing. Whether this anthology succeeds in its aims is up to you to decide.
Robert Minhinnick
Robert Minhinnick is one of Wales’ (some would say Britain’s) most eminent writers. He is a multi-prizewinning poet, essayist and novelist; his most recent poetry collection was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize in 2017 and won Wales Book of the Year, which he has won three times. Two of his novels have been shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. He edited Poetry Wales for ten years. Minhinnick is also an environmentalist and founder of Friends of the Earth Cymru and Sustainable Wales who has written extensively on the environment.
His debut novel Sea Holly (2007) was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize in 2008. Robert’s second novel Limestone Man (2015) is a gripping story of a man who tries to connect past and present yet is haunted by dreams of Australia and his youth. His novel Nia was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019
He edited Gorwelion: Shared Horizons (2021) a book of essays about climate change. His latest non-fiction book Delirium was published by Seren (2021).
