September has arrived, but our Friday Poem looks back to August’s Legend of the Month: Robert Minhinnick. ‘Archaology’ is from his sixth collection, Hey Fatman.
Hey Fatman is full of the rich, sometimes strange, always telling, detail that is to be expected from one of Britain’s most compelling poets. The book opens with poems set in and around Minhinnick’s native South Wales, and includes a sequence based on the history of an ancestral house, Dunraven. We then move on to work inspired by the poet’s travels in South America and the U.S.A. The whole volume presents us with a series of vivid portraits, and our featured poem, with its subject who ‘ran shouting/ From his house with his hair on fire’, is no exception.
Hey Fatman is available from the Seren website: £5.95
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