Robert Minhinnick
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Robert Minhinnick (born 1952) is a Welsh poet, essayist, novelist and translator.
Minhinnick was born in Neath, and now lives in Porthcawl. He studied at University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and University of Wales, Cardiff. An environmental campaigner, he co-founded the charities Friends of the Earth and Sustainable Wales. His work deals with both Welsh and international themes.
He has published seven poetry collections and several volumes of essays. He has edited the magazine, Poetry Wales, since 1997. He has also translated poems from contemporary Welsh poets for an anthology, The Adulterer's Tongue. His first novel, Sea Holly, will be published in autumn 2007.[1]
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[edit] Awards
Minhinnick won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem in 1999 for 'Twenty-five Laments for Iraq', and again in 2003 for 'The Fox in the National Museum of Wales'.[2] His poem ‘The Castaway’ was also shortlisted in 2004. He has also won an Eric Gregory Award (1980) and a Cholmondeley Award (1998), both awarded by the Society of Authors to British poets.[3][4]
In 2006, Minhinnick's 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] Works
[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)
[edit] Novels
- Sea Holly (2007)
[edit] Essays
- Watching the Fire Eater (1992)
- The Green Agenda: Essays on The Environment of Wales (1994) (ed.)
- Badlands (1996)
- To Babel and Back (2005)
[edit] Translation
- The Adulterer's Tongue: Six Welsh Poets: A Facing-Text Anthology (2003) (ed., transl.)
[edit] References
- ^ Seren: Sea Holly, Robert Minhinnick (accessed 18 August 2007)
- ^ Forward Poetry Prize winners (accessed 18 August 2007)
- ^ Society of Authors: Eric Gregory Trust Fund Awards (winners) (accessed 18 August 2007)
- ^ Society of Authors: Cholmondeley Awards for Poets (past winners) (accessed 18 August 2007)
