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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. On the journey we read about Minhinnick's time spent in a fever hospital, his homage to darts, and tributes to artists as diverse as Elvis Presley and Jorge Luis Borges. And the collection culminates with the short story, 'Scavenger', which suggests an alarming near future.
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Robert Minhinnick
Robert Minhinnick is a poet, novelist and essayist. His many books include the essay collections Watching the Fire Eater, winner of Wales Book of the Year in 1993, and To Babel and Back, Wales Book of the Year in 2006. In 2004, his translations of Menna Elfyn’s poems were included in his anthology The Adulterer’s Tongue: Six Welsh Poets from Carcanet. His latest poetry collection is Diary of the Last Man (Carcanet, 2017).
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