
Island of Lightning
Robert Minhinnick(Author)
Seren (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-78172-129-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bridgend
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Poetry Wales Press
Weight
228 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78172-129-2 (9781781721292)
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Person
Robert Minhinnick is one of Wales' (some would say Britain's) most eminent writers. He is a multi-prizewinning poet, essayist and novelist; his most recent poetry collection was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize in 2017 and won Wales Book of the Year, which he has won three times. Two of his novels have been shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. He edited Poetry Wales for ten years. Minhinnick is also an environmentalist and founder of Friends of the Earth Cymru and Sustainable Wales who has written extensively on the environment. He edited Gorwelion: Shared Horizons (2021) a book of essays about climate change.