Bøker av Robert Minhinnick

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 countless wrecks on the dangerous coast of south Wales. Visiting the shoreline of his home he discovers a world where both history and climate change are inescapable.

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 find a new way to live her life. Lyrical, evocative, Nia is a compelling story of a search for resolution where small town life is laid bare and an ancient landscape holds answers.

Climate change meet post-Brexit British politics

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, using images of archaeology, mining, geology and his own layered biography to uncover what might be reclaimed.

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, Eastern Europe and Argentina, and his 25 years in the environmental movement. It also includes politically-charged poems such as "An Opera in Baghdad" and "An Isotope, Dreaming".

A collection of linked stories, this book provides voices to the migrants around the globe and explores their lives as they interact with others and experience a mix of hope, success, failure, fear, indifference, and passion. Both a fictional record and an investigation of immigration and migration in the 20th and 21st centuries, this narrative journeys as far as Albania, China, Mexico, Iraq, Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

The essential poems of a multi award-winning Welsh writer and environmentalist.

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, Malta, New York, Zagreb, Lithuania and the lightning island of Malta.

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 poems deal with travel in Brazil and the United States, and also deal with schizophrenia.