Book description
In Albania, Mexico, China, Iraq, Israel, Wales, the US, London…
people are on the move; migration and immigration are key issues of
the twentieth and twenty-first century.
The Keys of Babylon is a collection of 15 linked stories by
award-wining poet and author Robert Minhinnick, giving voices to
migrants around the globe. Both a fictional record of, and an
exploration into their lives, the migrants and the people with whom
they interact reflect a comprehensive mix of hope, success, failure,
fear, indifference and passion. And the stories of each of the main
characters are drawn together in a final narrative which surveys their
situation on a particular day.
Robert Minhinnick is the prize-winning author of two volumes of
essays, seven volumes of poetry and a novel. He has also edited a book
on the environment in Wales, written for television and provided
columns for The Western Mail and Planet. He is the co-founder of the
environmental organisation, Sustainable Wales, and was formerly the
editor of Poetry Wales.
