Robert Minhinnick

Robert Minhinnick, essayist and environmental campaigner, is a leading Welsh poet. His most recent volume, After the Hurricane: New Poems (Carcanet Press, 2002) characteristically moves between contrasting landscapes, from Canada, America and Brazil to Iraq and back to Wales.

Paradise lost and found

Paradise Above me the sparrow and above the sparrow the shape of the hawk, the sparrowhawk itself. But how soon the sky is emptied of both the sparrow and its

By Robert Minhinnick

/ 9 May 2005