Robert Minhinnick was born in 1952 in South Wales, where he still lives. He is the prize-winning author of four volumes of essays, more than a dozen volumes of poetry and three works of fiction. His poetry collections include The Looters (1989) and Hey Fatman (1994), both published by Seren. A Selected Poems was published in 1999, followed by After the Hurricane (2002), King Driftwood (2008) and Diary of the Last Man (2017), all published by Carcanet Press. He has twice won the Forward Prize for Best Poem. He co-founded Friends of the Earth (Cymru) and has been an active environmental campaigner for many years.
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