Robert Minhinnick Livres

Exploring the environmental "badlands" across Europe, Asia, and the U.S., the author combines vivid prose with a sense of wanderlust. His journeys take him from Albania's impoverished landscapes to Silicon Valley's scorched suburbs, revealing stark contrasts like a nuclear plant's eerie silence and the commercial exploitation in Whitechapel. With unique guides, including a survivor of a bizarre regime and a poet yearning for alien abduction, the essays reflect on the absurdities of our world while critiquing environmental and social injustices.

Richard Parry is a painter who cannot paint, a writer who doesn’t write. His obsession is Lulu, that ‘orphan off the street’, his aboriginal ‘green child’. But on returning from Australia to his hometown he finds it has become notorious for the suicides of young people. As Parry tries to connect past and present he is haunted by dreams of Australia and of his youth. Yet is Parry all he seems? Isn’t he frankly, ‘a bit creepy’? How trustworthy is memory? And what has happened to the vivacious Lulu? A meditation on age and opportunity by prizewinning poet, essayist and novelist Robert Minhinnick.

In Delirum Robert Minhinnick addresses his square a small Welsh coastal town and massive sand dunes. But its uniqueness is challenged by the algorithms of globalisation, by the climate emergency, by a changing world led by corrupt, inept politicians. This thought-provoking book celebrates the ordinary and everyday, our vital bedrock for life.

Exploring profound themes such as death, doubt, and alienation, this anthology features the work of fourteen Dutch poets, many of whom are celebrated on the continent but lesser-known in the English-speaking world. The poetry, characterized by a conversational tone and wry humor, uniquely focuses on language itself rather than nature or politics. Edited by Robert Minhinnick and Rob Schouten, this collection serves as an engaging introduction to the distinct qualities of Dutch poetry, showcasing a diverse range of voices and styles.

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

The narrative explores a perilous journey linking U.S. uranium mines to Saddam Hussein's Iraq, blending documentary and dream-like travel experiences. It traverses diverse locations, including Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York, while weaving cultural references and poetic elements. The author contrasts the serene beauty of Wales' coastline and valleys with the chaotic backdrop of modern society, revealing a world that is both strikingly familiar and oddly surreal, and reflecting on the profound silence found amidst the noise of contemporary life.

Leaving behind his family and teaching job, John Vine goes to live an easy life by the sea and quell the wanderlust that threatens to undo him. The mysterious disappearance of one of his students disrupts the surface idyll to reveal a town filled with complex relationships and burned-out lives, all haunted by the images left of John's young pupil. With rich and vibrant prose, this novel explores the relationship between the permanence of the natural world and the transience of modern technology.

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 includes Rio beach beggars, Madison Avenue literati, saloon-bar poolsters and millionaire scrap merchants. These essays cover a variety of third world poverty and the internationalism of alcohol, rugby through the eyes of a vegetarian, nuclear power, sunbathing and a thanksgiving dinner for the demise of Margaret Thatcher. But at the core of this collection is a vivid series of attempts to strip away the exhausted mythologies of the writer's own country and the increasingly-packaged places he visits. Whether in the rainforest or the big match crowd, Minhinnick's language, acid, imagist, compassionate, celebrates the people he meets and, fleetingly, defines their lives.

Climate change meet post-Brexit British politics

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.