Robert Minhinnick
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Robert Minhinnick (born 1952) is a Welsh poet and author.
Minhinnick was born in Neath, and now lives in Porthcawl. He studied at University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and University of Wales, Cardiff. He is an environmental campaigner, involved with the charities Friends of the Earth and Sustainable Wales. His work deals with both Welsh and international themes. He is editor of the magazine, Poetry Wales, and has published several volumes of essays. In 1999, he won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem. In 2006, his book To Babel and Back, describing a journey in the Middle East, won the English-language Wales Book of the Year Award, which he had previously won in 1993 for Watching the Fire Eater.
[edit] Poetry
- A Thread in the Maze (1978)
- Native Ground (1979)
- Life Sentences (1983)
- The Dinosaur Park (1985)
- The Looters (1989)
- Hey Fatman (1994)
- After the Hurricane (2002)
