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Robert Minhinnick
This text draws on six previous collections published between 1978 and 1994. The earlier poems are diverse, ranging from descriptions of work in heavy industry to observations of wildlife. Later…
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This fifth collection confirms Minhinnick’s reputation as a poet of startling originality. His themes center around conflict, political and racial oppression, mental illness, and environmental destruction.
From Copacabana to urban Yorkshire, from New Mexico to a Welsh funfair, from The Netherlands to the Clare coast, Robert Minhinnick’s world is a shrinking one. Its cast of characters…
his new collection by Robert Minhinnick is full of the rich, sometimes strange, always telling, detail that we have come to expect from one of Britain’s most compelling poets. The…
Minhick’‘s second collection of essays is a p oetic and environmental synthesis. Urban and rural, tragic a nd absurd, badlands is a real place, but where the borders b egin…
Travels from country to country in search of clarity and lucidity in the background noise which can characterise so much of the globalised and West-aspiring world. From America to Iraq…
In the last week of the summer season a group of characters circle each other their minds on the past and on what the future holds. This is a story…
In Albania, Mexico, China, Wales, London, people are on the move. The Keys of Babylon is a collection of 15 linked stories by Robert Minhinnick, giving voices to the world’s…
Richard Parry is a painter who cannot paint, a writer who doesn’t write. But is he all he seems? A meditation on age and opportunity by Ondaatje nominated novelist Robert…
In ancient and mysterious sand dunes a teenager is attacked. Some years later Nia returns to her home town, and the dunes, to come to terms with her experience and…
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Robert Minhinnick is alive to his environment: he has a scientist’s regard for facts. The poet in him sees into the facts of landscape and history. He visits various pasts…
Island of Lightning is the latest book of essays by Robert Minhinnick. In it he travels from his home in south Wales to Argentina, China, Finland, Iraq, Tuscany and Piemonte…
Climate change meet post-Brexit British politics
Written with a keen awareness of both climate change and the situation in the Middle East, this work features poems that draws upon the poet’s travels in the Middle East…
In Delirum Robert Minhinnick addresses his square mile: a small coastal town and massive sand dunes. But its uniqueness is challenged by the algorithms of globalisation, by the climate emergency…
Gorwelion: Shared Horizons is a climate change anthology of poetry and prose edited by prize-winning writer and environmental activist Robert Minhinnick featuring Welsh, Scottish, Indian and English writers.
Robert Minhinnick is a Welsh poet exploring the coves and caves of his home town, recalling its history, aware of its dangers. With 'Wild Swimming at Scarweather Sands', he remembers…
The essential poems of a multi award-winning Welsh writer and environmentalist.
In a Different Light is a groundbreaking collection of work by fourteen poets writing in Dutch, many of whom have made continental reputations, yet await discovery by the English-speaking world…
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Menna Elfyn
Menna Elfyn is the best-known, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets. This bilingual edition of her later poetry includes work from Cell Angel (1996) and Blind Man’s…
Menna Elfyn is Wales’s leading Welsh-language poet. Bondo is the latest of her collections to be published in Welsh and English at the same time: so there is no separate…
