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17 produkter
Island of Lightning
E-bok, 2013
132 kr
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Robert Minhinnick''s latest prose collection follows him to China, theTower of Babel and Wales via the mysterious ''Island of Lightning''. Teeming with vivid depictions of people and the natural world, these twenty-three texts are an exhilarating combination of poetry, magic realism and wanderlust. …
Limestone Man
Häftad, 2015
139 kr
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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 …
Limestone Man
E-bok, 2015
141 kr
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Richard Parry is a painter who cannot paint, a writer who doesn''t write. His obession is Lulu, an aboriginal child. Returning from Australia to his south Wales hometomw, Parry finds it has become notorious for suicides of young people. As he tries to connect past and present he is haunted by …
Nia
E-bok, 2019
141 kr
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Nia Vine is about to fulfil her dream of exploring an unmapped cave system. With her will go two friends who were brought up in the same seaside town. These companions are international travellers, but Nia, who has recently become a mother, feels her experience insignificant compared with that of …
Delirium
Häftad, 2022
139 kr
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Robert Minhinnick’s square mile on the coast of south Wales is the starting point for a series of pieces which journey outwards to Sicily, Iraq and Burma among other places. They start too in the personal – hospital visiting, clearing a house, covid lockdown – and expand into the universal. And …
Delirium
E-bok, 2022
141 kr
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"…small, beautiful gem-like fragments adding up to a satisfying, lapidary whole." Jon Gower: Nation Cymru"Minhinnick makes the case for [delirium] in busy, fragmented prose, which is polyphonic in voice, time-bending in span, and a whirlwind to read." Wales Arts Review.In Delirium Robert Minhinnick …
Diary of the Last Man
Häftad, 2017
130 kr
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Wales Book of the Year 2018. Winner of the 2018 Roland Mathias Poetry Award. Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize. The opening poem sequence, 'Diary of the Last Man', sets the tone for Robert Minhinnick's book, a celebration of the dwindling Earth, an elegy, a caution. His Wales is a …
Alcatraz
Poems from the Contemporary Welsh
Häftad, 2026
203 kr
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Radically lyrical, politically astute, this new collection features six writers whose every word is an act of affirmation. As it must be, for their art to flourish beside one of the world’s great languages.In Alcatraz: Poems from the Contemporary Welsh, we find youthful energies tackling climate …
Duncan Bush
Häftad, 2026
256 kr
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Duncan Bush (1946–2017) was an ambitious, challenging and self-styled ‘working class’ writer from Cardiff, who spent periods living in France and Luxembourg. Following early academic success, he devoted himself to his own prose and poetry and published several volumes of writings that include …
Watching the Fire-eater
Häftad, 1995
126 kr
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Former Arts Council of Wales Book of the YearFrom 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 …
Keys of Babylon
Häftad, 2011
122 kr
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Author shortlisted for the £30,000 Sunday Times Short Story Award 2012.In Albania, Mexico, China, Iraq, Israel, Wales, the US, London… people are on the move. Migration and immigration are key issues of the twentieth and twenty-first century. The Keys of Babylon is a collection of 15 linked stories …
Wild Swimming at Scarweather Sands
Häftad, 2023
101 kr
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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 …
Island of Lightning
Häftad, 2013
136 kr
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Island of Lightning is the latest book of travel essays by the prizewinning Robert Minhinnick, poet, novelist, translator, cultural commentator and environmentalist. In it he travels from his home in south Wales to Argentina, China, Finland, Iraq, Tuscany and Piemonte, Malta, New York, Zagreb, …
Nia
Häftad, 2019
139 kr
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In a small Welsh coastal town a young woman is coming to terms with her past. Nia has returned with her daughter to the place where she was attacked as a teenager. Through her story, and those of friends who have also returned from travelling the world, Nia gradually reveals – and makes sense of – …
Badlands
Häftad, 1996
96 kr
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Industrial smoke turns the noon sky black. Beneath its clouds the poorest people in Europe arrange flowers on a dictator's grave. On Avienda de las Pulgas an Oldsmobile slows down for a better view. Emerging from a lemon grove is the last pedestrian in California. At a nuclear plant the only sound …
Poetry Wales
40 Years
Häftad, 2005
139 kr
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Charting 40 years of evolving tastes, fashions, cultures, and politics, this anthology spotlights the original mission of "Poetry Wales" magazine: to provide a forum for Welsh writing in English. Today the magazine is a thoroughly internationalist journal, publishing poets from Heaney to Mapanje …
To Babel and Back
Häftad, 2005
106 kr
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Winner of the Wales Book of the Year Award 2006Join Robert Minhinnick on a journey across a radioactive planet. Researching the use of depleted uranium in modern weapons, the writer follows a deadly trail from the uranium mines of the USA into Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Here, he is led into the temples …
