Poetry
Category: Poetry, Poetry Anthologies, Poetry Wales
Number of pages: 260
ISBN: 9781854113795
Publication date: June 30, 2005
Price: £9.99
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An entertaining and wide-ranging selection from forty years of one of Britain’s foremost poetry magazines.
Forty years and 154 issues have helped Poetry Wales become one of the bedrock magazines for new poetry in Britain. Despite its name, PW is an internationalist journal, regularly publishing translations and poetry from around the world. It publishes the leading poets of the day, from Heaney to Mapanje as well as seeking out writing’s exciting new talents. At its heart, historically, has been poetry from Wales in both languages.
Former editor, Robert Minhinnick, compiled an anthology which provides an essential overview of the poetry and criticism which has appeared in Poetry Wales, and of poetry from Wales over the last forty years. Excellence has always been the guiding criterium for the magazine, and this book is no exception.
Robert Minhinnick
Robert Minhinnick is one of Wales’ (some would say Britain’s) most eminent writers. He is a multi-prizewinning poet, essayist and novelist; his most recent poetry collection was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize in 2017 and won Wales Book of the Year, which he has won three times. Two of his novels have been shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. He edited Poetry Wales for ten years. Minhinnick is also an environmentalist and founder of Friends of the Earth Cymru and Sustainable Wales who has written extensively on the environment.
His debut novel Sea Holly (2007) was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize in 2008. Robert’s second novel Limestone Man (2015) is a gripping story of a man who tries to connect past and present yet is haunted by dreams of Australia and his youth. His novel Nia was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019
He edited Gorwelion: Shared Horizons (2021) a book of essays about climate change. His latest non-fiction book Delirium was published by Seren (2021).
