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 where both history and climate change are inescapa
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.
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.
Climate change meet post-Brexit British politics
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.
The essential poems of a multi award-winning Welsh writer and environmentalist.
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.
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.
Contemporary Writing from Wales
