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Sea Holly
Robert Minhinnick"Minhinnick has brought his poet’s eye to the landscape and a realism to the lives of his characters. It is an unsettling read, but I’m glad I made the effort.’ Rodney Troubridge, Waterstone’s Fiction Marketing Planner
‘It’s language quicksilvering a howl of anguish…on the strength of this book alone, Minhinnick stakes his claim to be regarded as the finest writer working in any genre in Wales today.’
Jim Perrin, on To Babel and Back
‘The leading Welsh poet of his generation’
Sean O’Brien, Sunday Times.
A stunning debut novel from this award-winning poet and essayist, Sea Holly is a story of drifting, burnt-out lives, shadowed by the mysterious disappearance of a vivacious young girl. Sea Holly tells the story of John Vine,a hard working English teacher who has left job and family and moved to a nearby coastal caravan park, calling bingo numbers for a living.“John Vine? He has it all. Home, family, career.You can’t knock that. But he has this worm inside him,this dissatisfaction… A boy of twenty,that’s OK, he’s going to dream. But a man of fifty? With a young piece who thinks he’s not half bad?…believe me that’s when everything’s going to come loose.That’s when it’s going to get dangerous.”
An environmental campaigner, Robert Minhinnick has an international reputation as a poet and essayist.He has travelled to,and written about many parts of the world and is recognised as one of Wales’ foremost poets. His first poetry collection was published more than twenty-five years ago.He has won the Forward Poetry Prize twice and his last book, To Babel and Back – a series of essays from America, Iraq and his nativeWales,was the Welsh Book of the Year 2006.
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ISBN : 978-1-85411-435-8 Pages : 260gwales.com : Sea Holly
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