From: "Barry Alpert" <[log in to unmask]>
>What would I be missing
> if I chose to view rarely-screened documentaries by Chris. Marker and Jean
> Cocteau instead of witnessing a local appearance by Robert Minhinnick?
A hell of a lot -- Rob Minhinnick is a brilliant reader, and very funny.
Also, some poems (the whale's scrotum poem, for instance) which he does at
readings sometimes, he's never published. So you'd miss much if you missed
a reading by him in the States.
Robin
> "Robert Minhinnick, named "the leading Welsh poet of his generation" (The
> Sunday Times), has produced eight collections of poetry, several books on
> the environment in Wales, and essays on Albania, California, Brazil, and
> the "absurd zones" of the world. Called a combination of Martin Amis and
> Bruce Chatwin, Minhinnick is editor of the Poetry Wales magazine, whose
> latest column - and his reading at Georgetown - will showcase the work of
> Dylan Thomas."
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