Robert Minhinnick was born in Wales in 1952. He is a poet, essayist, translator, novelist and short story writer. His poetry has twice won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem. His novel, Sea Holly (2007) was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. He edited Poetry Wales Magazine from 1997 to 2008. He has performed his work in North ... Read moreand South America, Europe, Australia and the Middle East, and in 2011 visits India. Minhinnick is a translator, and Carcanet has published his anthology of modern poets, The Adulterer's Tongue: Six Welsh Poets. Minhinnick lives in Porthcawl, and is the 'biographer' of its unique funfair: Fairground Music. Show Less