Island of Lightning

Robert Minhinnick''s latest prose collection follows him to China, theTower of Babel and Wales via the mysterious ''Island of Lightning''. Teeming with vivid depictions of people and the natural world, these twenty-three texts are an exhilarating combination of poetry, magic realism and wanderlust. On the journey we read about Minhinnick''s time spent in a fever hospital, his homage to darts, and ...